Fiction & Poetry
“The Englishman”
“His eyes travelled up my bare leg as it emerged from the sleep-twisted sheets. I pretended to be asleep.”
Douglas Stewart on his story in this week’s magazine. Read more >>>
- Flash Fiction
“Keys”
“Alone, Daniel wondered about the phantom flat that always came to mind in these dreams, the place the keys would open.”
- Fiction
“Flashlight”
“Such naked wanting to be wanted made Louisa’s mother even more repellent to Louisa than she generally was.”
The Writer’s Voice
Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”
The author reads his story from the September 14, 2020, issue of the magazine.
Poetry
“I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered”
“Among crickets and chicken bones in ditches, in the bare / grass on the lavish grounds of a crumbling castle, in a flapping German / circus tent.”
The Poetry Podcast
Radical Imagination: Marilyn Nelson, Tracy K. Smith, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, three of America’s most prominent poets join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberation.
Flash Fiction
“The South Asian Speakers Series Presents the Archeologist and Adventurer Indiana Jones”
“What he wouldn’t give to be back in the jungles of Honduras or jumping trains across Nazi-occupied Europe, where he could let his whip do the talking.”
“Ruth, Frank, and Dario”
“It had irritated her, Ruth told the friends, to find herself waiting for Frank to call.”
“The Kingdom That Failed”
“The more sincerely he tried to explain things, the more a fog of insincerity came to hang over everything.”
“Tales Told to Tevye”
“Rabbi Biegeleisen explained that to summarize Judaism in a single sentence or verse was nonsense.”
The Fiction Podcast
David Gilbert Reads Samantha Hunt
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Three Days,” by Samantha Hunt, from a 2006 issue of the magazine.