Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”

Nell Zink reads her story “The Welfare State,” from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. Zink is the author of seven novels, including “Doxology,” “Avalon,” and “Sister Europe,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.or ...  Show more

Andrew Martin reads his story “Risk, Discipline,” from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel “Early Work,” and the story collection “Cool for America.” His new novel, “Down Time,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in Ma ...  Show more

<span>Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time<span>,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the Germa ...

David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections and two novels, “The Free World,” which was a finalist for t ...

<span>Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey<span>,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in<span> </span></span>Th ...

Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, ...  Show more