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Paul Yoon reads his story “War Dogs,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Snow Hunters” and “Run Me to Earth,” and the story collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize, which was published last year. Share your thoughts on The Writer’s Voice. As a token of our appreciation, you will be eligible to enter a prize drawing up to $1,000 after you complete the survey. https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/222b/76152?pin=1&uBRANDLINK=4&uCHANNELLINK=2

Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “Witz,” “Moving Kings,” and “The Netanyahus,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.

Matthew Klam reads his story “Hi Daddy,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat and Other Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.

The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“The Reverse Bug,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead.

Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award Finalist; “The Chalk Artist”; and “Sam,” which came out last year.

Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir “The Speckled People” and ten novels, including “Dublin Palms” and “The Pages.”

Bryan Washington reads his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of one story collection and two novels, “Memorial,” which came out in 2020, and “Family Meal,” which was published last year. Be among the first to see the 2024 National Book Awards longlists. Sign up for the magazine's Books and Fiction newsletter, where you’ll also receive early access to new short stories, plus essays and criticism.

Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year.

Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, 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 this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published next year.

Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” and two novels, “An Obedient Father,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “Family Life,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.

This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode of the Writer’s Voice featuring an archival story: “The Naturals,” by Sam Lipsyte, which was published in the May 5, 2014, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” “The Ask,” and “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” which was published in 2022.

Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.

Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Lost and Wanted” and “The Limits,” which was published earlier this year. She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010.

Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of two novels, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” and “Bad Animals,” which was published earlier this year. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award.

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Freedom to Move,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” which came out this month.

Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” A new novel, “Intermezzo,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in September.

Annie Proulx reads her story “The Hadal Zone,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s works of fiction include the novels “That Old Ace in the Hole” and “Barkskins,” and three collections of Wyoming stories, “Close Range,” “Bad Dirt,” and “Fine Just the Way It Is.” She is a winner of the pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among other awards.

Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novel “Free Love” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” which came out last year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

Roddy Doyle reads his story “The Buggy,” from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including the Booker Prize-winning novel “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” and the story collection “Life Without Children.” A new novel, “The Women Behind the Door,” will be published in September.

Camille Bordas reads her story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017, and a new novel, “The Material,” was published this month.

Lore Segal reads her story “Beyond Imagining,” from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories,” which came out last year.

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Thataway,” from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

André Alexis reads his story “Consolation,” from the May 20, 2024, issue of the magazine. Alexis, a playwright and fiction writer, received the Windham Campbell Prize in fiction in 2017. His novels include “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Giller Prize, and “Days by Moonlight.” His story collection, “The Night Piece,” was published in 2020

Simon Rich reads his story “We’re Not So Different, You and I,” from the May 13, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rich has published eight books of fiction, including “The Last Girlfriend on Earth,” which was adapted for the TV series “Man Seeking Woman,” and “Hits and Misses,” which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2019. A new story collection, “Glory Days,” will be published in July.

Cynan Jones reads his story “Pulse,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, the novel “Cove” and the story collection “Stillicide.” His previous story in The New Yorker, “The Edge of the Shoal,” was the 2017 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award.

Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction. A new novel, “Butcher,” and a story collection, “Flint Kill Creek,” will be published later this year.

Kevin Barry reads his story “Finistère,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “City of Bohane,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020. A new novel, “The Heart in Winter,” will be published in July.

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Bozo” from the April 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020.

Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “Allah Have Mercy” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is the author of “The Prophet of Zongo Street,” a story collection, which came out in 2005. He teaches undergraduate fiction in N.Y.U.’s Creative Writing department.

Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “Beautiful Days,” will be published in June.

Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June.

Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “The High Places,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.

Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is the author of three novels and two story collections, as well as several works for children. In 2021, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark’s Golden Laurels prize.

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the 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.

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.

Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the February, 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Langley is the author of two novels, “Arkady” and “The Variations,” which came out in the U.K. last year, and will be published in the U.S. on February 20th.

David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.

Joy Williams reads her story “The Beach House,” from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams, a winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, is the author of five story collections, including “Ninety-Nine Stories of God” and “The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories,” and five novels, such as “Harrow,” which was published in 2021.

On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine, in which a group of old friends convene in Palm Springs, California, for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals” and the novel “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published in October, 2023.

Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.”

Caleb Crain reads his story “Keats at Twenty-Four,” from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.

Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this year and a new book, “Pharmakon,” a collection of prose pieces and photographs, will be published in 2024.

The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Steven Snyder. Ogawa was not able to read her story for The Writer’s Voice, but, on a recent episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the writer Madeleine Thien read and discussed Ogawa’s 2004 story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” and we wanted to share that episode with you instead. We hope you enjoy it.

Sheila Heti reads her story “According to Alice,” which appears in the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. Heti wrote this story in collaboration with a customizable chatbot on the Chai AI platform, which she began engaging in conversation in 2022. Heti is the author of seven books, including the novels “Motherhood,” which was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and “Pure Color,” which won the Governor General’s Award last year.

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Our Time Is Up,” which appears in the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, and she was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022.

Junot Díaz reads his story “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” which appears in the November 6, 2023, issue of the magazine. Díaz is the author of the story collections “Drown” and “This Is How You Lose Her,” and the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2008.

Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

Mary Costello reads her story “The Choc-Ice Woman,” which appears in the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Costello is the author of three books of fiction, including “Academy Street,” which won the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the novel “The River Capture,” which came out in 2019.

Lore Segal reads her story “On the Agenda,” which appears in the September 18, 2023, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch: and Other Stories,” which comes out later this month.

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Siberian Wood,” which appears in the September 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar has published two short story collections and four novels, including “Still Here” and “Divide Me By Zero,” which came out in 2019.

In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades. On a recent episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, the fiction editor Deborah Treisman spoke with Hadley about her genesis as a fiction writer. Hadley’s latest story collection is “After the Funeral.”

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The End Is Only a Beginning,” which appears in the August 21, 2023, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” and the novel “Blue Skies,” which came out earlier this year.

Karan Mahajan reads his story “The True Margaret,” which appears in the August 14, 2023, issue of the magazine. Mahajan is the author of two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs,” which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award in 2017.

Jamie Quatro reads her story “Yogurt Days,” which appears in the August 7, 2023, issue of the magazine. Quatro is the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” and the novel “Fire Sermon.”  A new novel, “Two-Step Devil,” will be published next year.

Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Maths Tutor,” which appeared in the July 24, 2023, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novels “Free Love’ and “The Past,” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral.” She is a winner of the 2016 Windham Campbell Literature Prize.

Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017.

Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection “The Mountain” and the novel “Run Me to Earth,” which came out in 2020. A new collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” will be published later this year.

Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang is the author of two novels: “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018, and “Joan Is Okay,” which was published in 2022.

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Civil Disturbance,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “American Estrangement,” which was published in 2021.

George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year.

Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize.

Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is the author of a story collection and four novels, including “The Great Believers,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which came out in February.

Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cusk, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of four nonfiction works and eleven novels, including the “Outline” trilogy and, most recently, “Second Place.”

Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel.

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021.

Allegra Goodman reads her story “The Last Grownup,” which appeared in the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “The Chalk Artist,” and, most recently, “Sam,” which came out earlier this year.

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Different People,” which appeared in the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She was named a  “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022.

Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and five novels, including “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” which was published last year. She won the Windham Campbell Literature Prize in 2020.

Han Ong reads his story “Hammer Attack,” which appeared in the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Notions of the Sacred,” which appeared in the January 2 & 9, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of two novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” which was published in 2019, and “White on White,” which came out in 2021.

Matthew Klam reads his story “The Other Party,” which appeared in the December 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Klam is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat: And Other Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.

Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” A new book, “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” will be published in 2024.

Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021.

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “Princess,” which appeared in the November 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Outside Looking In” and “Talk to Me.” his most recent story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” came out earlier this year.

Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books of fiction include the story collection “Lucky Alan and Other Stories” and the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published in 2020.

Marisa Silver reads her story “Tiny Meaningless Things,” which appeared in the October 24, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silver is the author of seven books of fiction, including the story collection “Alone with You,” and the novels “Little Nothing” and “The Mysteries,” which was published last year.

David Gilbert reads his story “Come Softly to Me,” which appeared in the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed,” and two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.”

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Take Half, Leave Half,” which appeared in the October 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

Nicole Krauss reads her story “Shelter,” which appeared in the October 3, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kruass is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love,” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize.

Caleb Crain reads his story “Easter,” from the September 26, 2022, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors” and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

Ben Okri reads his story “The Secret Source,” from the September 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His poetry collection “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” was published last year.

Joan Silber reads her story “Evolution,” from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, including, most recently, “Secrets of Happiness” and “Improvement,” for which she won the pen/Faulkner Award in 2018.

Ben Lerner reads his story “Café Loup,” from the September 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

The August 29, 2022, issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, bringing together pieces from past issues of the magazine on the theme of Celebrity. It features the story “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Instead of a Writer’s Voice episode, this week we are rereleasing an episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, taped in 2012, in which David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Roy Spivey.”

Alejandro Zambra reads his story “Skyscrapers,” which was translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, from the August 22, 2022, issue of the magazine. Zambra is a Chilean poet and fiction writer whose books translated into English include “Multiple Choice,” “Chilean Poet,” and “Bonsai,” his first novel, which was published in a new translation this month.

Sana Krasikov reads her story “The Muddle,” from the August 15, 2022, issue of the magazine. Krasikov is the author of the story collection “One More Year,” for which she won the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award, and the novel “The Patriots,” which was published in 2017.

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “You Tell Me” from the August 1, 2022, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022. Her début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out last year, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize.

Han Ong reads his story “Elmhurst” from the July 25, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

Bryan Washington reads his story “Arrivals,” from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Washington is a winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. His story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019, and his novel, “Memorial,” came out in 2020.

Rachel Kushner reads her story “A King Alone” from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kushner has published three novels, “Telex from Cuba,” “The Flamethrowers,” and “The Mars Room,” which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Her most recent book, “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020,” came out last year.

Lauren Groff reads her story “To Sunland,” from the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Etgar Keret reads his story “Mitzvah,” translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen, from the June 27, 2022, issue of the magazine. Keret’s books include the memoir “The Seven Good Years” and the story collections “Suddenly a Knock on the Door” and “Fly Already,” which was published in 2020.

André Alexis reads his story “Houyhnhnm,” from the June 20, 2022, issue of the magazine. Alexis received the Windham-Campbell prize for fiction in 2017. His novels include “Childhood,” “Fifteen Dogs,” and “Days by Moonlight,” and his story collection, “The Night Piece,” was published in 2020.

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Trash,” from the June 13, 2022, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the short-story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Boy Upstairs,” from the June 6, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2014, and “A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” which was published last year.

Claire-Louise Bennett reads her story “Invisible Bird,” from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bennett is the author of the short-story collection “Pond” and the novel “Checkout 19,” which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “Occupational Hazards,” from the May 23, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kochai’s first novel, “99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the pen/Hemingway Award. His story collection, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” will come out in July.

Mohsin Hamid reads his story “The Face in the Mirror,” from the May 16th, 2022, issue of the magazine. Hamid is the author of four novels, including “How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” and “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. A new novel, “The Last White Man,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in August