
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.