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The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.

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This passionate melodrama by Satyajit Ray, about four middle-class men on a heedless spree in a rural village, is a teeming panorama of social divisions and inequities.

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