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

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

1. Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore
2. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
3. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
4. My Friends by Hisham Matar

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

1. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea, A Memoir by Hannah Stowe
2. Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water by Kathleen Dean Moore
3. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey through Britian by Roger Deakin

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

1. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
2. Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
3. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble
4. Ladies' Lunch and other stories by Lore Segal

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

1. How To Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
2. Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
3. The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien

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

1. Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen
2. Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Anya Migdal
3. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

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

1. Elsewhere, Home, by Leila Aboulela
2. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda
3. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

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

1. The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
2. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
3. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

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

1. Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
2. When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
3. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi