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.
<p>Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/13/haunting-olivia"><strong>Haunting Olivia</strong></a>,” by Karen Russell, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “<a href ... Show More