New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books... more
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for... more
Greg Jackson reads his story “The Honest Island,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the... more
Paul Yoon reads his story “War Dogs,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author... more
Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the... more
Matthew Klam reads his story “Hi Daddy,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of... more
The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to... more
Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story... more
Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the... more
Bryan Washington reads his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner... more
Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of... more
Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is... more
Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author... more
This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode... more
Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of... more
Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of... more
Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author... more
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Freedom to Move,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the... more
Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is... more
Annie Proulx reads her story “The Hadal Zone,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s... more
Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve... more
Roddy Doyle reads his story “The Buggy,” from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author... more
Camille Bordas reads her story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine. Bordas published... more
Lore Segal reads her story “Beyond Imagining,” from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books... more
Thomas McGuane reads his story “Thataway,” from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than... more
André Alexis reads his story “Consolation,” from the May 20, 2024, issue of the magazine. Alexis, a playwright and fiction... more
Simon Rich reads his story “We’re Not So Different, You and I,” from the May 13, 2024, issue of the... more
Cynan Jones reads his story “Pulse,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of... more
Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Oates,... more
Kevin Barry reads his story “Finistère,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of... more
Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Bozo” from the April 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes... more
Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “Allah Have Mercy” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is... more
Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer... more
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the... more
Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of... more
Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is... more
Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the... more
Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is... more
Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the February, 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Langley is the... more
David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the... more
Joy Williams reads her story “The Beach House,” from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams, a winner... more
On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21,... more
Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Galchen... more
Caleb Crain reads his story “Keats at Twenty-Four,” from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Crain is the... more
Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner... more
The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese... more
Sheila Heti reads her story “According to Alice,” which appears in the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. Heti... more
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Our Time Is Up,” which appears in the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine.... more
Junot Díaz reads his story “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” which appears in the November 6, 2023, issue of the... more
Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays... more
Mary Costello reads her story “The Choc-Ice Woman,” which appears in the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Costello... more
Lore Segal reads her story “On the Agenda,” which appears in the September 18, 2023, issue of the magazine. Segal’s... more
Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Siberian Wood,” which appears in the September 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar has... more
In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades.... more
T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The End Is Only a Beginning,” which appears in the August 21, 2023, issue... more
Karan Mahajan reads his story “The True Margaret,” which appears in the August 14, 2023, issue of the magazine. Mahajan... more
Jamie Quatro reads her story “Yogurt Days,” which appears in the August 7, 2023, issue of the magazine. Quatro is... more
Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Maths Tutor,” which appeared in the July 24, 2023, issue of the magazine. Hadley... more
Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, issue of the magazine.... more
Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine.... more
Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang... more
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Civil Disturbance,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is... more
George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the... more
Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is... more
Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is... more
Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the... more
Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is... more
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is... more
Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the... more
Allegra Goodman reads her story “The Last Grownup,” which appeared in the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine. Goodman... more
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Different People,” which appeared in the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début... more
Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is... more
Han Ong reads his story “Hammer Attack,” which appeared in the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the... more
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Notions of the Sacred,” which appeared in the January 2 & 9, 2022, issue of... more
Matthew Klam reads his story “The Other Party,” which appeared in the December 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Klam... more
Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the... more
Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich... more
T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “Princess,” which appeared in the November 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Boyle has... more
Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books... more
Marisa Silver reads her story “Tiny Meaningless Things,” which appeared in the October 24, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silver... more
David Gilbert reads his story “Come Softly to Me,” which appeared in the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine.... more
Thomas McGuane reads his story “Take Half, Leave Half,” which appeared in the October 10, 2022, issue of the magazine.... more
Nicole Krauss reads her story “Shelter,” which appeared in the October 3, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kruass is the... more
Caleb Crain reads his story “Easter,” from the September 26, 2022, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of... more
Ben Okri reads his story “The Secret Source,” from the September 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Okri is the... more
Joan Silber reads her story “Evolution,” from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silber is the author of... more
Ben Lerner reads his story “Café Loup,” from the September 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author... more
The August 29, 2022, issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, bringing together pieces from past issues of the magazine... more
Alejandro Zambra reads his story “Skyscrapers,” which was translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, from the August 22, 2022,... more
Sana Krasikov reads her story “The Muddle,” from the August 15, 2022, issue of the magazine. Krasikov is the author... more
Joan Silber reads her story “Evolution,” from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silber is the author of nine books... more