Fiction & Poetry

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

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

“Is a table an argument or an understanding?”

The author reads her story from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine.

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?

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

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

“The Dissected Graces in Florence.”

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

The author reads her story from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine.