In “Hell-Heaven” with Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri’s new story collection, ‘Unaccustomed Earth,’ was reviewed Sunday in our pages. Reviewer Lisa Fugard calls the book ‘a howl from the heart of a writer working at the height of her powers.’

Lahiri, 40, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her debut collection, ‘Interpreter of Maladies,’ and followed it up with the bestselling book-turned-movie, ‘The Namesake.’ Her new collection includes the story ‘Hell-Heaven,’ which ran in the New Yorker in 2004. That same year she appeared at the New Yorker Festival; in this film clip, she reads from her story and answers audience questions.

Carolyn Kellogg