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Fiction

“Vincent’s Party”

Probably she’d get in trouble for this tomorrow, but she didn’t care; she was too full of agitated happiness. Anything could happen between now and tomorrow.
Fiction

“The Buggy”

The next wave or the one after, the buggy was going to be on its side and the baby—if there was one—would be strapped in and helpless.
Fiction

“Chicago on the Seine”

Occasionally, I had to send a body home. What I’d noticed was that death abroad was more common on package tours.
Fiction

“Beyond Imagining”

The friends talked about reviving ladies’ lunches in person. “At my place, please, if you don’t mind,” Farah said.
Fiction

“Woman, Frog, and Devil”

His father believed that the blame for both national disasters and educational failures lay with a soft upbringing that encouraged girlishness.

This Week in Fiction

New Yorker fiction writers discuss their stories from the magazine.

This Week in Fiction

Tessa Hadley on Channelling Postwar Britain

The author discusses “Vincent’s Party,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
This Week in Fiction

Roddy Doyle on How an Idea Makes It to the Page

The author discusses “The Buggy,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
This Week in Fiction

Camille Bordas on Giving Ghosts the Attention They Require

The author discusses her story “Chicago on the Seine.”
This Week in Fiction

Lore Segal on the Obvious and the Inexplicable

The author discusses her story “Beyond Imagining.”

The Writer’s Voice

Writers read their stories from the magazine.

The Writer’s Voice

Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”

The author reads her story from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”

The author reads his story from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine”

The author reads her story from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”

The author reads her story from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine.

The Fiction Podcast

A monthly reading and conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

Fiction Podcast

André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

The author joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro. He reads and discusses “Before the Change,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1998.
Fiction Podcast

Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the stories “The Bible” and “The Stolen Pigeons,” which were published in The New Yorker in 2006 and 2007.
Fiction Podcast

David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Likes,” which was published in a 2017 issue of The New Yorker.
Fiction Podcast

Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Safari,” which was published in a 2010 issue of The New Yorker.

Flash Fiction

A series of very short stories. Read them all »

Flash Fiction

“My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty”

We picked this place to live in for one simple reason: it was dirt cheap.
Flash Fiction

“The Preparatory School”

I would go in terrified and feel calm again only once I was at least two blocks away.
Flash Fiction

“Blue Island”

His advice for getting back with a girl you couldn’t forget was to call her out of the blue.
Flash Fiction

“Wolves”

They said we had too much white blood, we were not dark enough.

The New Yorker Novella

Long-form fiction. Read them all »

Novellas

“Server”

It was empty when I logged in. I’d been off it since Vic died, four years ago.
Novellas

“The Bicycle Accident”

“Of course, Arlette understood, this was not a tragedy. Tragedy would be a broken neck or spine. Paralysis for life. A coma.”
Novellas

“Muscle”

“It’s time to turn up the heat a little bit more. My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.”
Novellas

“What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?”

“He got out of the car, closing his door quietly, and crept through the woods toward the brick house.”

Poetry

Poems

“Hernia”

“A worry bead. / A rosary woe.”
Poems

From “Adam”

Weaving together the Genesis myth, Yoruba culture, and contemporary Black British culture, a young poet explores the haunting reverberations of an unsolved killing with an unidentified victim.
Poems

“Moonlight”

“Even now, what do I know?”
Poems

“Suite for Voices”

Three poems.

The Poetry Podcast

Readings and conversations with The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young.

Poetry Podcast

Amy Woolard Reads Charles Wright

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Via Negativa,” by Charles Wright, and her own poem “Late Shift.”
Poetry Podcast

José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “World of the future, we thirsted,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and his own poem “Tender.”
Poetry Podcast

Ada Limón Reads Carrie Fountain

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “You Belong to the World,” by Carrie Fountain, and her own poem “Hell or High Water.”
Poetry Podcast

Donika Kelly Reads Mary Oliver

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, and her own poem “Sixteen Center.”

More Fiction & Poetry

Poems

“A Big Red Shiny Apple”

“He slowly peeled / off the glossy paper, & he just / held the apple as if it were / golden.”
Poems

“Half Hour to Aberdour”

“Late August, your estuary, now / Flattens gray, and the eroded / Pilings stagger from landfall / Like upside-down legs.”
Poems

“This Living”

“It’s going to happen any day now.”
Poems

“The Age of Miracle Weapons”

“There was a protest outside Thomas Jefferson.”
Poems

“Marigold”

“I have the sun’s eye one minute— / the next, I’m going to bed with it.”
Poems

“The Bath”

“The spider, like some cave-dweller, so transparent / she could be a lens.”
Poems

“From ‘Heritage’ ”

“I was born in the month of the Blood Wolf Moon.”
Poems

“The Call to Worship”

“I prefer a theology of silence, the eschatology / of the shrug.”
The Writer’s Voice

Thomas McGuane Reads “Thataway”

The author reads his story from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine.
Fiction

“Thataway”

He pictured his town as something glowing from the American past, a Norman Rockwell kind of place, but the picture faded.