10+ hour, 42+ min ago  (167+ words) On The New Yorker's Poetry Podcast, the poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss "In the Waiting Room," by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem "Love Poem Like We Used to Write It." Patricia Lockwood joins Kevin Young to…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (403+ words) Your story "The Welfare State" follows two women who have been friends, living in the same small town in Bavaria, for two decades, as they take a walk along the peak of Mt. Niesen, in the Swiss Alps. The two…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (270+ words) by Smedley D. Butler I did a lot of research before I sat down to write "Atropia," and one of the things I read that I was most struck by was this pamphlet by Smedley Butler, a Marine Corps major general…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (21+ words) Comic Strip by Liana Finck: He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (100+ words) Andrew Martin reads his story "Risk, Discipline," from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel "Early Work," and the story collection "Cool for America." His new novel, "Down Time," from which this story was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1931+ words) When Violet and I finally decided to get married, I was in the middle of a depression so deep it had developed into something more like psychosis. I felt like I was pretending to be myself. I don't mean I…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1122+ words) There's a place in Portland, Oregon, that sells these doughnuts I like, and I was walking to it early one afternoon when a dark-haired man twenty or so feet ahead of me turned to shout, "Why are you following me?...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (500+ words) The writer and book critic on an essay by the author of "The Group," "The Company She Keeps," and "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood." In January, 1970, The New Yorker published McCarthy's "One Touch of Nature," a tour-de-force essay that stretched…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (149+ words) As we're mesmerized by artificial intelligence today, going back to Lem's stories, which anticipated every kind of intelligent machine, is a must. by Philip K. Dick Dick's work hasn't aged at all. He is probably read even more keenly today, when…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (94+ words) McEwan spoke with David Remnick at a public event organized by the 92nd Street Y. New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop every Tuesday and Friday. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline…...