Fiction & Poetry
Fiction
“The Case for and Against Love Potions”
“If I’m advising you to do something uncommon, my dear friend, it’s because I want you to know such uncommon bliss.”
Imbolo Mbue on her story in this week’s magazine. Read more »
- Fiction
“The Shape of a Teardrop”
“What I really wanted to sue them for was giving birth to me in the first place.”
- Fiction
“The Crooked House”
“Environmental analysis. That had been Mull’s field, when the earthquakes began and the house first fell.”
The Writer’s Voice
Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”
The author reads her story from the March 22, 2021, issue of the magazine.
Poetry
“Days of Teen-Age Glory”
“We passed the time and it passed us / without a sound except for the singing.”
The Poetry Podcast
Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith
Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young to discuss “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire.”
Flash Fiction
“Tales Told to Tevye”
“Rabbi Biegeleisen explained that to summarize Judaism in a single sentence or verse was nonsense.”
“An Evening with Joseph Conrad”
“How they got to talking about white bread he could not remember afterward, but it shone in his mind, this conversation, as the bread had shone.”
The Fiction Podcast
Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Fjord of Killary,” by Kevin Barry, which appeared in a 2010 issue of the magazine.