The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton

Sex parties, corruption and dark dark deeds in not-quite-Nigeria, in Akwaeke Emezi’s Little Rot; aspiration, real estate and misguided philanthropists in New York, in Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives, and all those untold stories, in Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything.  GUESTS Gretchen Shirm, critic and writer whose books include the short story collection Having Cried Wolf and the novels Where the Light Falls and The Crying Room. Stephen Long, Senior Fellow at the independent policy research organisation, The Australia Institute. Before that he was a senior reporter for the ABC’s investigative journalism program, Four Corners, as economics correspondent and national finance correspondent. BOOKS Akwaeke Emezi, Little Rot, Faber  Rumaan Alam, Entitlement, Riverhead Books  Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything, Viking Penguin  OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead Taffy Brodesser-Akner , Long Island Compromise Porochista Khakpour, Tehrangeles Andrew O'Hagan, Caledonian Road Alice Robinson, If You Go Susie Boyt, Love and Missed Paul Lynch, Prophet Song Joseph Stiglitz, The Road to Freedom - Economics and the Good Society  CREDITS Presenter, Kate Evans + Cassie McCullagh Producer, Kate Evans +  Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Tegan Nicholls + Simon Branthwaite Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown