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Matt Haig was already several books into his career as a writer by the time he published “The Midnight Library” in 2020. One of those books, the 2015 memoir “Reasons to Stay Alive,” had even been a best seller in England, his home nation. Yet, “The Midnight Library” was a true br ...  Show more

“Angel Down,” a grisly novel about World War I told in a single, almost 300-page-long sentence, was awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In a review for The New York Times, Ben H. Winters described it as a “thunderous gallop” that captures the “cruel and self-perpetuat ...  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 ...