A Vocabulary of Pleasure: A Virtual Salon with Literary Critic Parul Sehgal & Adam Dalva

On August 2, 2023, Words Without Borders hosted New Yorker staff writer Parul Sehgal and WWB Books Editor Adam Dalva for a lively conversation. They discussed recent trends in international literature, Sehgal’s journey as a writer and critic, and what it means to establish a “vocabulary of pleasure.”
Words Without Borders was thrilled to host Parul Sehgal as part of our ongoing digital conversation series to engage leading thinkers in conversations on writing around the world.
Please note: The subtitles we uploaded were generated automatically by Zoom's closed captioning service.
Parul Sehgal is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a book critic at the New York Times, where she also worked as a senior editor and columnist. She has won awards for her criticism from the New York Press Club, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. She teaches in the graduate creative-writing program at New York University.
Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He is the Books Editor for Words Without Borders and the Senior Fiction Editor of Guernica Magazine. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.
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