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Photograph by Mark Boucher

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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