7+ hour, 26+ min ago  (366+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. Podcast: The Writer's Voice Listen to Andrea Bajani read "Constellation." It was a good exercise of power to push her toward literature, but in the long run that…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (688+ words) Han Ong, the author of the novel "Fixer Chao," cut ties with his family when he was twenty. Almost thirty years later, he Googled his mother. It took me a few tries to find my mother on Google in 2017. My…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (180+ words) On the Fiction Podcast, Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (143+ words) A neighbor travels to G'bekli Tepe and ponders T-shaped pillars with carved gazelles and vultures; you stay within a half-mile radius and noticeon December 23 the Scotch broom has yellow flowers. The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterflyis about to go extinct; roofers…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (93+ words) The New Yorker In "Hamnet" as in "Land," loss and irretrievability are of central concern'how should they be acknowledged, and to what extent? When "Hamnet" falters, it's because the book overreaches in its claims about the power of art to…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (221+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. What I liked most was that I could convince her of anything. All I had to do was show her things in the street, or people we passed…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (161+ words) On The Writer's Voice podcast, Taiye Selasi reads "Firstborn Immigrant Daughter," her story from the June 8, 2026, issue of The New Yorker. A scientist with a Ph. D. from Harvard fatally shot three of her colleagues. Then revelations about her family history…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (150+ words) Second. By "firstborn daughter," we do not mean firstborn child per se. You might have elder brothers. A second-born twin. Your father might have children from'how shall we put it? Children from a previous entanglement. You might not know, or…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (145+ words) On more than one night I lowered my mother's rented bed so it would be level with my futon bed in a room of my little sister's house, where my sister and brother-in-law had made a hospice out of what…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (380+ words) This week's story, "Many Worlds," is about a young Turkish couple, Defne and Mete, who met as graduate students in California and are now back in Istanbul. By chance, they run into their former American housemate, Aleksi, who now looks…...