Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'

Since its first episode in April 2006, the “Book Review” podcast has played host to hundreds of authors talking about their new works and possibly as many conversations about the best (and sometimes worst) that books have to offer. In this anniversary episode, the Book Review edi ... Show More

Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns out to be not so routine: When the contractors leave, she steps into the refurbished space and finds herself somehow transported to an actu ... Show More

How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United St ... Show More

<p><span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/seeing-ershadi">Seeing Ershadi</a><span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 2018. M ... Show More

Idiosyncratic short story writer Diane Williams discusses her new book, “How High? – That High.”