Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The New Yorker: Fiction
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued this July by Outsider Editions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's David Remnick, and I've got some news for you. |
| 0:03.8 | We're headed to the Tribeca Festival for a special live taping of the New Yorker Radio Hour. |
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| 0:25.5 | slash audio. This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from The New Yorker magazine. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker. |
| 0:44.8 | Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss. |
| 0:50.0 | This month, we're going to hear The Fugitive by Ludmila Ulytskaya, |
| 0:53.8 | which was translated from the Russian by Bella Shiavich, |
| 0:57.3 | and appeared in the New Yorker in May of 2014. |
| 1:01.4 | A month and half had gone by, and he still had no news from home. |
| 1:06.4 | He did not seek out ways to get in touch with his wife. |
| 1:10.5 | He was more comfortable not imagining how worried she was about him, her desires, anxieties, |
| 1:16.2 | and fears. |
| 1:19.0 | The story was chosen by Han Ong, who is the author of numerous plays and the novel's Fixer |
| 1:23.9 | Chow and the Disinherited. |
| 1:26.7 | Hi, Han. Hi, Ann. |
| 1:28.2 | Hey, Debra. |
| 1:35.3 | So I think you somewhat surprised yourself by choosing to read a story by Ludmila Ulytskaya today. |
| 1:36.7 | Why was that? |
| 1:43.7 | Well, I was trawling through the fiction archives looking for a story to read for the podcast, And I sort of set myself a parameter of going back |
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