Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”

<p>Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/the-golden-boy-fiction-daniyal-mueenuddin"><strong>The Golden Boy</strong></a>” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “<a hre ... Show More

<p>Madhuri Vijay reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/laras-theme-fiction-madhuri-vijay"><strong>Lara’s Theme</strong></a>,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Far ... Show More

<p>Paul Yoon reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/the-new-coast-fiction-paul-yoon"><strong>The New Coast</strong></a>,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href ... Show More

Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, and “The Night Watchman,” which was awarded the Pul ... Show More

This week, Jordan talks to the novelist Sigrid Nunez about her youthful preoccupation with mimicking the prose of Virginia Woolf, the step-by-step intuitive way she writes prose now, and the best way to make overnight oats.Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feath ... Show More

Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “Music for Wartime” and the novels “The Borrower,” “The Hundred Year House,” “T ... Show More

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” and “Orange World and Other Stories ... Show More

Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction ... Show More

Bestselling author Brad Meltzer joins Michael to discuss his new book "I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg" which is part of his award-winning 'Ordinary People Change The World' series. Original air date 8 January 2024. The book was published on 9 January 2024. 

<p>The British writer Kate Atkinson has had a rich and varied career since her debut novel, “Behind the Scenes at the Museum,” won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1996; her 14 subsequent books have included story collections, historical fiction and an inventive speculativ ... Show More

As a newborn, Ed Archie NoiseCat was found in an incinerator at a Catholic-run Indian boarding school. In a new book We Survived the Night, his son, Julian Brave NoiseCat, writes about this trauma in the broader context of Native history in the United States and Canada. The book ... Show More

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Bla ... Show More

<p>In this month’s installment of the Book Review Book Club, we’re discussing “The Catch,” the debut novel by the poet and memoirist Yrsa Daley-Ward. The book is a psychological thriller that follows semi-estranged twin sisters, Clara and Dempsey, who were babies when their mothe ... Show More