David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into...

Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” opens with a jolt: “The girls, the infernal heat, a fresh-dead body. Marching up the river path, the villagers.”How did we get here, with five young sisters living in 1700s England being hunted by an angry mob that su ...  Show more

The journalist, novelist and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman is best known for writing about rock music and pop culture in astute essay collections like “The Nineties,” “X” and “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs.” But Klosterman got his start in college as a sports journalist, and with ...  Show more

<span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Seeing Ershadi<span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span>in 2018. M ...

<span>Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Zombie<span>,” by Joyce Carol Oates, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span>in 1994. Sharma ...

<span>Ben Purkert joins</span><span><span> </span></span>Kevin Young<span><span> </span>to read “</span>Notes on the Realit ...

<span>Elif Batuman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Truth and Fiction<span>,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><spa ...