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<p>Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/07/backbone"><strong>Backbone</strong></a>,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Libra ... Show More

<p>Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-stone"><strong>The Stone</strong></a>,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction ... Show More

<p>Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/the-largesse-of-the-sea-maiden"><strong>The Largesse of the Sea Maiden</strong></a>,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2014. Loda ... Show More

Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut, Pond (Fitzcarraldo), has been a firm bookshop favourite since its release, for its unique, irreverent voice and attention to the parts of experience which go overlooked or unspoken. Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape), the follow-up, is one of our most eage ... Show More

The nameless narrator in author Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, absolutely loves books. Their mere presence puts her at ease. But her lifelong love of reading is, in part, because she feels let down by the people around her. Bennett told NPR's Scott Simon that lov ... Show More

<p>Eliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/first-person" target="_blank">First Person</a>," featured on<span> </span><a href="http://newyorker.com/" target="_blank">newyorker.com</a>. Griswold is a po ... Show More

<p>It’s that time of year: After months of reading, arguing and (sometimes) happily agreeing, the Book Review’s editors have come up with their picks for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/books/review/best-books-2023.html" target="_blank">the 10 Best Books of 2023</a>. ... Show More

<p>Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 &amp; 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction. A new novel, “<a href="https://w ... Show More

<p><span>Ben Purkert joins</span><span><span> </span></span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/08/24/notes-on-the-reality-of-the-self">Notes on the Realit ... Show More

<p>Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” ... Show More

<p>Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulit ... Show More

<p>It's gonna be a busy spring! On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz talks with Tina Jordan and Joumana Khatib about some of the upcoming books they’re anticipating most keenly over the next several months.</p><p>Books discussed in this week’s episode:</p><p>“Knife,” by Salman Ru ... Show More

<p>On this week’s episode, a look at the rest of the year in books — new fiction from Alice McDermott and this year’s Nobel laureate, Jon Fosse, a journalist’s investigation of state-sanctioned killings in the Philippines, and a trio of celebrity memoirs. </p><p>Discussed in this ... Show More