In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Yonder: Essays by Siri Hustvedt
2. The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
3. Horizon by Barry Lopez

1. The Feast of the Goat by Peruvian-born Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
2. Territory of Light by Japanese author Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
3. Amnesty by India-born Aravind Adiga

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez
2. Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
3. The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews 
2. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
3. The Passport and Other Selected Short Stories by Antonis Samarakis, translated from the Greek by Andrew Horton

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
2. Miss Iceland by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon
3. Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
2. Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
3. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
2. Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler III
3. Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery Along the Silk Road by Bernard Ollivier, translated from the French by Dan Golembeski

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy
2. Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3. Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Alligator & other stories by Dima Alzayat (pub. 2020)
2. Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore (pub. 2021; English translation pub. 2024)
3. The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks (translations pub: 1972; revised for Penguin Classics 2005)

In the episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
2. Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee
3. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar