Page-Turner
Tennis As a Metaphor
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
David Foster Wallace wrote about the sport in fiction, essays, journalism, and reviews; it may be his most consistent theme.
Books & Fiction
Literary news, stories, poems, and reviews.
Page-Turner
The Marianne Moore Revival
By Adrienne Raphel
The reissue of the poet’s original work could shift our perception of her as a quirky but somewhat cold formalist.
Books
The American Soldiers of the Spanish Civil War
By Caleb Crain
Young and idealistic, they signed up to fight Fascism, but were quickly disillusioned.
Spotlight
Page-Turner
My Writing on the Wall
By Henri Cole
Seeing my poems projected onto landscapes and buildings, I feel that the words become more direct, unself-conscious, and human.
American Chronicles
The Voyeur’s Motel
By Gay Talese
Fifty years ago, Gerald Foos bought a motel and rigged it up in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that.
Books
The Sexual Politics of Syntax
By Dan Chiasson
Rosmarie Waldrop’s work finds beauty and feminism in the lacunae between words.
Life and Letters
Maggie Nelson’s Many Selves
By Hilton Als
Balancing pathos with philosophy, Nelson has created a new kind of classicism, queer in content and elegant in shape.
Fiction
Poetry
Poems
“In Wonder”
By Charles Simic
“The frost on the bushes lay pretty / Like tinsel over a Christmas tree.”
Poems
“Two Lives”
By Carl Dennis
“I find our quiet neighborhood of handsome houses / And shady streets crushingly uneventful.”
Poems
“How to take off a sari”
By Momina Mela
“He asks and I tell him our bodies falling from an open window / first, unfasten the pallu the fall should be swift and vacant.”
New York City Stories
Our Local Correspondents
Up and Then Down
By Nick Paumgarten
In 1999, Nicholas White got stuck in the elevator of the McGraw-Hill Building for forty-one hours.
In the South Bronx
Whose Art Is It?
By Jane Kramer
Considering John Ahearn’s bronzes in the South Bronx.
Fiction
The Five-Forty-Eight
By John Cheever
A short story about an affair and its surprising aftermath.
Profiles
The Old House at Home
By Joseph Mitchell
McSorley’s opened in 1854, which makes it the oldest saloon in the city.
Podcasts
The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “The Burglar”
“What sorts of crimes are committed by an unjustly incarcerated man who’s travelled through a rift in the space-time continuum?”