Sonora Jha with Robin McLean – The Laughter

A white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleague in this modern, iconoclastic novel.

An explosive, tense, and illuminating work of fiction, The Laughter by Sonora Jha is a fascinating portrait of privilege, radicalization, class, and modern academia that forces us to confront the assumptions we make, as both readers and as citizens.

in conversation with Robin McLean, author of Pity the Beast and Get’em Young, Treat’em Tough, Tell’em Nothing.