Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His story collection, “Prayer for the Living,” was published in the U.S. this month.
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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Future Selves”
Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”
Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
Lauren Groff Reads “The Wind”
Allegra Goodman Reads “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
Andrea Lee Reads “The Rivals”
Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”
Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”
Salman Rushdie Reads “The Old Man in the Piazza”
Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
George Saunders Reads “Ghoul”
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”
Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”
David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”
Joseph O’Neill Reads “Rainbows”
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