Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places.
Mar 15
Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga”
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” ... Show More
52m 56s
Mar 8
Addie Citchens Reads "The City Is a Graveyard”
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/ ... Show More
26m 20s
Mar 1
Yiyun Li Reads “Calm Sea and Hard Faring”
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 Pul ... Show More
1 h
Dec 2019
Ann Beattie Reads Mavis Gallant
<p>Ann Beattie joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/01/05/dede">Dédé</a>,” by Mavis Gallant, which appeared in a 1987 issue of the magazine. Beattie has published eleven story collections and nine novels, including “Mrs. Nix ... Show More
1 h
Nov 2023
Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live
<p>Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1976/01/19/varieties-of-exile">Varieties of Exile</a>,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in <i>The New Yorker</i> in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books ... Show More
1h 19m
<p><span>Gish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1979/06/18/friends-4">Friends</a><span>,” by Grace Paley, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 1979. Jen is the aut ... Show More
<p><span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/seeing-ershadi">Seeing Ershadi</a><span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 2018. M ... Show More
<p><span>Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/confessions-of-a-shinagawa-monkey">Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey</a><span>,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>Th ... Show More
<p><span>Margaret Atwood joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/a-stranger">A Stranger</a><span>,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “</span ... Show More
