John Lanchester Reads “Signal”

The author reads his story from the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine.
A man lowers his eyeglasses.
Illustration by The New Yorker / Source photograph by Nick Cunard / AP

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On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “Signal,” by John Lanchester, which appeared in the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine. Lanchester, a journalist and novelist, is the author of six books of fiction, including “Capital,” “The Wall,” and “Reality and Other Stories,” which was published in 2020.