Deborah Treisman
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The New Yorker
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 19, 2026
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Fiction by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in English for the First Time (opens the original)
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The story “Narrow Escape” is excerpted from Solzhenitsyn’s unfinished novel “Love the Revolution,” most of which was written in 1948, though it wasn’t published in Russia until 1999, and is only now forthcoming in an English translation. Can you tell me what you know about the writing of the book, why it was never finished, and why it was finally published in 1999? Was your father involved with that publication? Do you know what he thought of the novel from that distance? The book was begun in 1
Joyce Carol Oates on Embedded Memories (opens the original)
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The author discusses her story “Lost Child.”
Madhuri Vijay on Cross-Generational Dynamics (opens the original)
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The author discusses her story “Hidden Life.”
Emma Cline on Rendering the Human Experience (opens the original)
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In your story “The Blight,” David Hastings, a semi-retired executive who is grappling with the onset of dementia and travelling to Switzerland for a voluntary assisted death, stops off in London to have dinner with his daughter. What made you want to inhabit the consciousness of a character in this situation? As a writer, I’m always interested in consciousness, and how to render our experience as humans on the page. With David more specifically, I was interested in how his consciousness might be
Rachel Yoder on a Mennonite Childhood and a Story About the Devil (opens the original)
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Your story “The Promise” follows a couple of days in the life of an eight-year-old girl named Birdie, who is growing up in a Mennonite community, in the nineteen-eighties. Her parents are away, and she is staying with her aunts and her grandmother, about to start second grade. What inspired the story, and what makes these two days in Birdie’s life so important? In “The Promise,” Birdie’s aunt Miriam tells her a story about the Devil and a typewriter. My aunt Clara also told me a story about a de
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