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The Book Club: Lionel Shriver
Mar 12, 2026
· 38m
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Lionel Shriver, whose new novel <em>A Better Life</em> offers among other things a savage send-up of liberal pieties on immigration. I asked Lionel what she was trying to do with the book (why make the argument, for instance, in a novel rather than an op-ed?), whether New York's immigration law really is as nutty as her story paints it, and how she reacts to the opprobrium that this sort of to-the-moment writing stirs …
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