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Missing Sheep

We all play a bit of a game when in love, don’t we?
Fiction

“Something Has Come to Light”

He asked me if I wanted to ride with him, and I said no. He repeated that back to me. He said, No? Or . . . yes?
Fiction

“The Corn Woman, Her Husband, and Their Child”

The Earliwoods didn’t recognize that they would be outsiders forever, people denigrated for being unable to hold on to a weathervane.
Fiction

“An Unashamed Proposal”

Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same bed?
Fiction

“The Bridge Stood Fast”

These are the things that change a child, he thought, but what can you do?

Flash Fiction

A series of very short stories. Read them all »

Flash Fiction

“An Open Heart”

Arman scoffed at the idea of a life beyond death, and Dad pointed out the irony of a ghost denying the afterlife.
Flash Fiction

“Thirty-Three”

Could be half my life, I said, could be all of it. Could be a third, Gabby said.
Flash Fiction

“Split Brain”

Right thinks we are a good person. Left does not.
Flash Fiction

“The Grass at Airports”

In parks and gardens abundant in plants and flowers, the grass is nothing more than a backdrop. Only at airports, with no masters to serve and no adversaries to overcome, can it reach its fullest glory.

This Week in Fiction

New Yorker fiction writers discuss their stories from the magazine.

This Week in Fiction

Miriam Toews on Saying Yes to Life’s Possibilities

The author discusses her story “Something Has Come to Light.”
This Week in Fiction

Annie Proulx on Stories as a Form of Invigorating Exploration

The author discusses her story “The Corn Woman, Her Husband, and Their Child.”
This Week in Fiction

Kiran Desai on Life with Her Characters

The author discusses her story “An Unashamed Proposal.”
This Week in Fiction

Anne Enright on Fathers and Daughters

The author discusses her story “The Bridge Stood Fast.”

The Writer’s Voice

Writers read their stories from the magazine.

The Writer’s Voice

Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”

The author reads her story from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Kiran Desai Reads “An Unashamed Proposal”

The author reads her story from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”

The author reads her story from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine.
The Writer’s Voice

Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”

The author reads her story from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine.

The Fiction Podcast

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

Fiction Podcast

Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1979.
Fiction Podcast

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2017.
Fiction Podcast

Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2016.
Fiction Podcast

Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner's Wives,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1995.

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

“O separation”

“You mysterious cruel hand, / you cold dropped and not-yet-dropped rain.”
Poems

“Suburban Divorcée”

“Mowing the lawn, it’s revealed, is not the torture / it once appeared as the loved one tore through // the yard in heated fury.”
Poems

“I Was a First Alto in the 1980s”

“I used to sit for hours / at an electric typewriter. / I remember well its hum.”
Poems

“Covid Snow”

“Six squirrels on the dead ash and the living pear.”

The Poetry Podcast

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

Poetry Podcast

Garrett Hongo Reads Charles Wright

The poet joins Kevin Young to read “T’ang Notebook,” by Charles Wright, and his own poem “On Emptiness.”
Poetry Podcast

Sasha Debevec-McKenney Reads Gabrielle Calvocoressi

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and her own poem “Kaepernick.”
Poetry Podcast

Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Half-Life in Exile,” by Hala Alyan, and her own poem “On Your Departure to California.”
Poetry Podcast

Erika Meitner Reads Philip Levine

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “To Gather Together.”

More Fiction & Poetry

Poems

“The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (I)”

“My ambition to be done with ambition / suffered a setback at my father’s funeral.”
Poems

“A Table”

“Is a table an argument or an understanding?”
Poems

“Preservation”

“The Dissected Graces in Florence.”
Poems

“Bob Marley, Live, 1980”

“In Kingston after the storm, the yard / cools, the grass slippery underfoot, / leaves dripping—the air heavy with fatigue.”
Poems

“Astounding Stories”

“Fear of the foreign and the fear of being foreign.”
Poems

“Rift”

“How is it you shed earlier selves and are more yourself with each shedding?”
Fiction

“The Chartreuse”

She could feel the mirror shining in her dark bedroom closet. Waiting for the offering.
Flash Fiction

“Double Time for Pat Hobby”

On the day that Pat met Jim Dasterson in the barrier, he had less than a dollar in one pocket and an ounce of gin in the other.
Poems

“Girlfriends”

“Now we’re older we know who’s gotten sober / or been bitten by God or chewed and discarded / under a dirty bus shelter.”
Poems

“Onions”

“Egyptians saw eternity / in your unspooling center.”