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Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid on trauma after 9/11, migration and belonging
Writers & Company starts its new season from Lahore, Pakistan. Mohsin Hamid was named "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" by the New York Times, and with his fifth novel, The Last White Man, he lives up to his reputation. He speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his writing and his exploration of themes of identity, anxiety and dislocation in the post-9/11 world. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-…
A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, onstage at the Toronto Reference Library
As part of the Toronto Public Library's Jamaica 50 celebrations, author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell discusses his work and his Jamaican heritage with Eleanor Wachtel. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996, Gladwell's four books: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What The Dog Saw, are all New York Times bestsellers.