Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

Dec 1, 2025, 11:00 AM1 hr 4 min

Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1986/06/09/elephant">Elephant</a>,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complicated-Kindness-Novel-Miriam-Toews/dp/1640091416/">A Complicated Kindness</a>,” which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction; “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Puny-Sorrows-Miriam-Toews/dp/1635574978">All My Puny Sorrows</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Women-Talking-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B07HM68X3P">Women Talking</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Night-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B092QZ4W8F">Fight Night</a>”—and the memoir “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truce-That-Not-Peace/dp/1639734740">A Truce That Is Not Peace</a>.”

Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “A Complicated Kindness,” which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction; “All My Puny Sorrows,” “Women Talking,” and “Fight Night”—and the memoir “A Truce That Is Not Peace.” 

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