Oct 1

Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff

Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Liter ... Show More

1h 3m

Sep 1

Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the author of three novels: “Free Food for Millionaires;” “Pachinko;” which was a final ... Show More

1h 4m

Aug 1

Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami

Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hamid is the author of five novels, including “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Aspen Word ... Show More

1h 33m

Mar 2022

Hanya Yanagihara

This week, Dua is At Your Service with the best-selling novelist and T Magazine editor-in-chief Hanya Yanagihara, who wrote the hugely successful A Little Life in 2015, and released her third book, To Paradise, in early 2022. Dua and Hanya discuss everything from the role critici ... Show More

50m 1s

Feb 2003

Hanif Kureishi

<p>Hanif Kureishi joins a World Service audience to discuss his book 'The Buddha of Suburbia'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.</p>

23m 37s

Nov 2025

Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’

The stories of mothers and daughters trying to connect with each other, across time, space and generations – this is the centerpiece of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. This week, Andrew Limboong and B. A. Parker are joined by NPR’s The Indicator’s Wailin Wong to discuss how the desp ... Show More

34m 13s

Jul 2022

The Book Club: Celebrating Australian literature for the ABC's 90th

Reading Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Patrick White's The Vivisector with critic Geordie Williamson - and with words from the writers themselves, as well as other voices and commentators from the ABC Archives

54m 7s

Sep 2024

Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”

Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year. Learn more abo ... Show More

38m 15s

Nov 2023

Immersive Remix: "The Takeback Tango" by Rebecca Roanhorse

A teenage thief embarks on a mission to reclaim her people's sacred treasures. First published in A UNIVERSE OF WISHES in 2020 in the United States by Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York. Fi ... Show More

41m 49s

Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami