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Author Talk: Nicholas Lemann — Returning - with Franklin Foer
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April 15, 2026
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56:28Now PlayingAuthor Nicholas Lemann discusses their book "Returning" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
Compulsive, shattering, if not fundamentally disruptive, Returning emerges as one of the most important and searingly honest family sagas of our time.
Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of The Promised Land, The Big Test, Redemption, and Transaction Man. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York.
Lemann is in converation with Franklin Foer, a staff writer at the Atlantic. For seven years, he was the editor of the New Republic. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle For America's Future. Sports Illustrated named his book How Soccer Explains the World one of the "most influential books of the decade;" it has been translated into 29 languages. He is a native of Washington, D.C.
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