Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”: Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published la by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”: Elif Batuman reads her story “The Repugnant Conclusion,” from the April 25 & May 2, 2022, issue of the magazine. Batuman is the author of “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them” and the novel “The Idiot,” which was by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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