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.