T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Floating,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife” and the novel “Pick a Color,” both of which were winners of the Giller P ...  Show more

Han Ong reads his story “My Balenciaga,” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “The Disinherited” ...  Show more

This week, we bring you a live interview with Garth Greenwell, conducted in October 2024 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Garth talks about growing up in Kentucky assuming that he would die young, the teacher who gave him a path toward being an artist, and the doggedness with which ...  Show more

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction ...

We're revisiting our 2021 interview with the poet Jericho Brown, who this week was named a MacArthur Fellow-- one of the highest honors in the arts and humanities. He and Jordan talk about the great mystery of why we desire the things we desire; about oration and the poets he rea ...  Show more