New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
Ben Lerner reads his story “ The Readers ,” from the June 29, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “ 10:04 ,” “ The Topeka School ,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, and “ Transcription ,” which came out earlier this year. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Andrea Bajani reads his story “ Constellation ,” which was translated, from the Italian, by Geoffrey Brock, and appeared in the June 15, 2026, issue of the magazine. Bajani is a winner of the Bagutta Prize and the Strega Prize, among other awards, and the author of ten books of fiction, including “ If You Kept a Record of Sins ” and “ Every Promise .” His most recent novel, “ The Anniversary ,” from which this story was adapted, is being translated into more than two dozen languages, and will be...
Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “ The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai, ” from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “ 99 Nights in Logar ” and the story collection “ The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories ,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Taiye Selasi reads her story “ Firstborn Immigrant Daughter ,” from the July 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Selasi is an author and photographer. Her début novel, “ Ghana Must Go ,” a New York Times best-seller, was published in 2013, the year she was named one of the best young British novelists by Granta . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “ Many Worlds ,” from the June 1, 2026, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the novels “ White on White ” and “ The Anthropologists ”; a nonfiction work, “ The Wilderness ”; and the story collection “ Long Distance ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Weike Wang reads “ The Dreamdrive ,” from the May 25, 2026, issue of the magazine. Wang was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” list in 2017, and has published three novels, “ Chemistry ,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, “ Joan Is Okay ,” and “ Rental House .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Chang-rae Lee reads his story “ Standings ,” from the May 11 & 18, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of six novels, including “ Native Speaker ,” “ The Surrendered ,” which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2011, and “ My Year Abroad .” His new novel, “ A Tender Age ,” will be published in August. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “ Process of Elimination ,” from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, a memoir, and the story collections “ Brief Encounters with the Enemy ” and “ American Estrangement ,” which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Thomas McGuane reads his story “ Ordinary Wear and Tear ,” from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “ Gallatin Canyon ,” “ Crow Fair ,” and “ A Wooded Shore ,” which came out in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Douglas Stuart reads his story “ A Private View ,” from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Stuart has published two novels, “ Shuggie Bain ,” which won the Booker Prize in 2020, and “ Young Mungo ,” released in 2022. His new novel, “ John of John ,” will be published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Catherine Lacey reads her story “ Rate Your Happiness ,” from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “ Pew ” and “ Biography of X ,” both of which were short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her memoir and novella, “ The Möbius Book ,” was published in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Cassandra Neyenesch reads her story “ Enough for Now ,” from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator, who has published nonfiction in the Guardian , Public Books , and Art in America , among other places. Her début novel, “ A Little Bit Bad ,” will be published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “ Floating ,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “ How to Pronounce Knife ” and the novel “ Pick a Color ,” both of which were winners of the Giller Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Han Ong reads his story “ My Balenciaga ,” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “ The Disinherited ” and “ Fixer Chao ,” which will be reissued in July. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Addie Citchens reads her story “ The City Is a Graveyard, ” from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, “ Dominion ,” was published in 2025 and was short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Yiyun Li reads her story “ Calm Sea and Hard Faring ,” from the March 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “ Must I Go ” and “ The Book of Goose ,” and the story collection “ Wednesday’s Child ,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 2024. Her most recent book, “ Things in Nature Merely Grow ,” won this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Mary Gaitskill reads her story “ Something Familiar ,” from the March 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of eight books of fiction, including “ Veronica ,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2005, and the novella “ This Is Pleasure .” Her most recent book is the essay collection “ Oppositions .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Valeria Luiselli reads her story “ Predictions and Presentiments ” from the February 16 & 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, Lusielli is the author of five books, including “ Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions ” and “ Lost Children Archive .” A new novel, “ Beginning Middle End ,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Molly Aitken reads her story “ This Is How It Happens ,” from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Aitken is the author of two novels, “ The Island Child ,” from 2020, and “ Bright I Burn ,” which was published in 2024. She won the 2023 Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Tessa Hadley reads her story “ The Quiet House ,” from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “ Bad Dreams ” and “ After the Funeral ,” and the novella “ The Party .” She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “ Light Secrets ,” from the January 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of a story collection and five novels, including “ Netherland ,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “ The Dog ,” and “ Godwin ,” which was published in 2024. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Sadia Shepard reads her story “ Kim’s Game ,” from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. Shepard is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, “ The Girl from Foreign ," was published in 2008. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Allegra Goodman reads her story “ Deal-Breaker ,” from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. Goodman is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novels “ Kaaterskill Falls ,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “ Sam ,” and “ Isola ,” published last year. Her new collection of linked stories, “ This Is Not About Us ,” will come out in February. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Nell Zink reads her story “ The Welfare State ,” from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. Zink is the author of seven novels, including “ Doxology ,” “ Avalon ,” and “ Sister Europe ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Andrew Martin reads his story “ Risk, Discipline ,” from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel “ Early Work ,” and the story collection “ Cool for America .” His new novel, “ Down Time ,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Camille Bordas reads her story “ Understanding the Science ,” from the December 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bordas is the author of four novels, including “ How to Behave in a Crowd ” and “ The Material .” Her first story collection, “ One Sun Only ,” will be published in January. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Joan Silber reads her story “ Safety ,” from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, the most recent of which are the novels “ Mercy ” and “ Secrets of Happiness .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “ The Golden Boy ” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “ In Other Rooms, Other Wonders ,” which was published in 2009 and won both the Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His first novel, “ This is Where the Serpent Lives ,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in January. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Madhuri Vijay reads her story “ Lara’s Theme ,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “ The Far Field ,” which won India’s J.C.B. Prize for Literature in 2019. She is at work on her second novel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Paul Yoon reads his story “ The New Coast ,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “ Run Me to Earth ” and “ Snow Hunters ,” which won the 2014 New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the story collection “ The Hive and the Honey ,” which was published in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
