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Feb 05, 2026
The National Book Award-winning Atlantic reporter joins us for a conversation about his new novel, The Emergency — a gripping tale of imperial collapse.
A visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval, The Emergency is a propulsive, Orwellian fable about a disgraced doctor on a quixotic quest for redemption in a society torn apart by sectarian violence — a haunting dystopia with uncanny echoes of contemporary America. A taut page-turner and a searching novel of ideas, Packer asks what we owe each other across divided generations and classes — and what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart.
A brilliant chronicler of award-winning non-fiction masterpieces like The Assassins’ Gate and The Unwinding, George Packer’s writing reflects our political moment with bracing clarity and vision. Don’t miss this celebration of his new novel — and a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar about how fictional worlds can illuminate our own reality.
“George Packer’s robustly imagined political parable is at once a gripping adventure and a vivid portrait of a family riven by a changing world. The Emergency is moving, urgent — and indelible.” — Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Homeland Elegies
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