Joan Silber Reads “Safety”

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Joan Silber reads her story “ Safety ,” from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN /Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, the most recent of which are the novels “ Mercy ” and “ Secrets of Happiness .”