Joshua Cohen reads his story “Trude,” which appears in the November 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s works of fiction include the novels “Witz,” “Book of Numbers,” “The Netanyahus,” for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022, and “Dead Herzls,” from which this story was ad ...Show more
Téa Obreht Reads “Family Lore”
Téa Obreht reads her story “Family Lore,” from the November 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Obreht, who was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue, in 2010, and the subsequent anthology, in 2021, is the author of four novels, including “The Tiger’s Wife,” a winn ...Show more
Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, which were published in The New Yorker in June of 2020. Okri is the author of two dozen books of f ...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 “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Bla ...Show more
David St. John joins Kevin Young to read “Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard,” by Larry Levis, and his own poem “The Shore.” St. John is the author of many poetry collections and the recipient of honors including the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the Americ ...Show more