Fiction & Poetry
“Snowy Day”
“The only things he can see now are snow and barbed wire. There’s nothing left in the world but barbed wire.”
Lee Chang-dong on his story in this week’s issue of the magazine. Read more >>>
- Fiction
“The Last Grownup”
“The paperwork was done, and it was weird and painful, like picking off a scab, because the marriage itself had ended two years before.”
The Writer’s Voice
Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”
The author reads her story from the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine.
Poetry
“A Graveyard in New England”
“Only recently has it been revealed / it’s not just in our beds lovers must bundle.”
“Zelda Fitzgerald”
“It’s true I hate the stories about the other women, / but I love the description of their daily lives.”
The Poetry Podcast
Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Shelter,” by José Antonio Rodríguez, and her own poem “Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982.”
Flash Fiction
“The Façade Renovation That’s Going Well”
“The third virtual meeting was cancelled, and, a day later, scaffolding went up.”
“Live a Little”
“Her husband has to frown because he notices his wife frown and because all the members of his family, it seems to him, are acting sad or are actually sad.”
“A Triangle”
“I knew the couple must have liked each other. They stared like children and kissed on the corners of their lips, and I knew.”
“Gravity”
“She wanted to feel sorry for the neighbor and say how horrible it was and how she must have really been suffering, but all that came out was anger.”
The Fiction Podcast
Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Moons of Jupiter,” which was published in a 1978 issue of the magazine.
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.”
“Many a Little Makes”
“Why was Bree the bad apple? The one needing to be banished? How could a girl of fourteen be the one held responsible?”
“Mother Nut”
“I told her about how there were these special trees in secret places, and no one knew how they could survive. And I tried not to make a thing out of saying—but did say—‘I’ve seen one, but I can’t tell you where it is.’ ”