Fiction & Poetry
Flash Fiction
“A Children’s Story”
“I want a happy ending,” the mother says, folding up the story and setting it on her nightstand. “You don’t know how to write happy.”
By Weike Wang
Fiction
“Opening Theory”
Looking over at her, he starts to smile again—revising, she thinks, the presumption of failure.
By Sally Rooney
Fiction
“The Drummer Boy on Independence Day”
An indispensable part of the ceremony, of course, was the Civil War veteran, and at the time I’m telling about we still had one—a Confederate, naturally.
By E. L. Doctorow
Fiction
“Kaho”
He may have been patiently waiting, for the longest time, for me to show up in front of him, she thought. Like an enormous spider waiting for its prey in the dark.
By Haruki Murakami
Fiction
“The Hadal Zone”
Arwen’s last thought before sleep is that he is in a twisting cyclonic fall down through the ocean trench to become a compressed speck of matter. It feels good.
By Annie Proulx
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.
By Haruki Murakami
Flash Fiction
“The Preparatory School”
I would go in terrified and feel calm again only once I was at least two blocks away.
By Hebe Uhart
Flash Fiction
“Blue Island”
His advice for getting back with a girl you couldn’t forget was to call her out of the blue.
By Stuart Dybek
Flash Fiction
“Wolves”
They said we had too much white blood, we were not dark enough.
By Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
This Week in Fiction
New Yorker fiction writers discuss their stories from the magazine.
This Week in Fiction
Sally Rooney on Characters Who Arrive Preëntangled and Her Forthcoming Novel
The author discusses her story “Opening Theory.”
By Cressida Leyshon
This Week in Fiction
A Newly Discovered Story by E. L. Doctorow
A conversation with Bruce Weber, the author of a biography in progress of E. L. Doctorow.
By Deborah Treisman
This Week in Fiction
Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions
The author discusses his story “Kaho.”
By Deborah Treisman
This Week in Fiction
Annie Proulx on the Allure of the Ocean Deeps and the Value of Uninterrupted Time
The author discusses her story “The Hadal Zone.”
By Cressida Leyshon
The Writer’s Voice
Writers read their stories from the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice
Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”
The author reads her story from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine.
With Deborah Treisman
The Writer’s Voice
Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”
The author reads her story from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine.
With Deborah Treisman
The Writer’s Voice
Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”
The author reads her story from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine.
With Deborah Treisman
The Writer’s Voice
Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”
The author reads his story from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine.
With Deborah Treisman
The Fiction Podcast
A monthly reading and conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
Fiction Podcast
Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.
With 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.
With Deborah Treisman
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.
With Deborah Treisman
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.
With Deborah Treisman
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.
By Bryan Washington
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.”
By Joyce Carol Oates
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.”
By Daniyal Mueenuddin
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.”
By Lauren Groff
Poetry
Poems
“Wallpaper Poem”
“If to dust we return / And we do / Why spend a minute / Choosing wallpaper.”
By Phillis Levin
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.
By Gboyega Odubanjo
The Poetry Podcast
Readings and conversations with The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young.
Poetry Podcast
Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey,’ ” and his own poem “Signs, Music.”
With 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.”
With Kevin Young
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.”
With Kevin Young
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.”
With Kevin Young
More Fiction & Poetry
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.
By Tessa Hadley
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.
By Roddy Doyle
Poems
“Half Hour to Aberdour”
“Late August, your estuary, now / Flattens gray, and the eroded / Pilings stagger from landfall / Like upside-down legs.”
By David Biespiel
Poems
“A Big Red Shiny Apple”
“He slowly peeled / off the glossy paper, & he just / held the apple as if it were / golden.”
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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.
With Deborah Treisman
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.
By Camille Bordas