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- This Week in Fiction
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Canvassing
The author discusses “Civil Disturbance,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
June 12, 2023
- Books
Lorrie Moore’s Death-Defying New Novel
In “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” the writer slices through the conventions of literary form with violent precision, carving out new possibilities.
June 12, 2023
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“Be Mine,” “August Blue,” “V Is for Victory,” and “Easily Slip Into Another World.”
June 12, 2023
- Under Review
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2023 So Far
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
June 7, 2023
- Books
Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?
In a democracy, a policy appraisal has to contend with political as well as economic consequences.
June 5, 2023
- This Week in Fiction
George Saunders on the Nature of Mind
The author discusses “Thursday,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
June 5, 2023
- Books
The Afterlives of Susan Taubes
Her suicide, on the publication of her first novel, made her an icon of doomed femininity, but rediscovered works are revealing a more complex writer.
June 5, 2023
- Books
The Perils and Potential of the Runaway Imagination
In “Owlish,” Dorothy Tse’s dreamlike début novel, a lonely professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina.
June 5, 2023
- Fiction Podcast
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” which was published in a 2017 issue of the magazine.
June 1, 2023
- Page-Turner
The Case That Being Poor and Black Is Bad for Your Health
The public-health professor Arline T. Geronimus has spent a forty-year career researching how inequality takes a “weathering” toll on the body.
May 31, 2023
- Books
The Trials and Triumphs of Writing While Woman
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Toni Morrison, getting a start meant starting over.
May 29, 2023
- This Week in Fiction
Hila Blum on Power and Parenthood
The author discusses “Do You Love Me?,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.
May 29, 2023
- Books
The Long Afterlife of Libertarianism
As a movement, it has imploded. As a credo, it’s here to stay.
May 29, 2023
