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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Process of Elimination,” from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, a memoir, and the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” which was a finalist for the ...  Show more

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Ordinary Wear and Tear,” from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “A Wooded Shore,” which came out in 2025. Learn a ...  Show more

<span>Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time<span>,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the Germa ...

<span>David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “</span>Face Time<span>,” by Lorrie Moore, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span>in 2020. Means is the auth ...

<span>Ariel Francisco joins Kevin Young to read "By a Lake in Minnesota," by James Wright, and his own poem "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/along-the-east-river-and-in-th ...

Today I talked to Laurie R. King about her new novel Back to the Garden: A Novel (Bantam, 2022). Inspector Raquel Liang of the San Francisco Police Department has reached a crossroads in her career. A recent incident ended with her transfer to the Cold Cases Unit and instructions ...  Show more