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Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

The New Yorker: Fiction

October 1, 20241h 18m

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Show Notes

Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “Music for Wartime” and the novels “The Borrower,” “The Hundred Year House,” “The Great Believers,” for which she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which was published last year. 

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