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ILLUSTRATION: YVETTA FEDOROVA
FICTION: The Headstrong Historian, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Many years after her husband had died, Nwamgba still closed her eyes from time to time to relive his nightly visits to her hut, and the mornings after, when she would walk to the stream humming a song…
Adichie: “Real Food” (2007)

POEM

A Frame

by J. D. McClatchy

FICTION

A Night at the Opera

by Janet Frame

POEM

Slow Drag Blues

by Kevin Young
PHOTOGRAPH: BASTIENNE SCHMIDT, “EMBROIDERY” (2007)
FICTION: Natasha, by Vladimir Nabokov
He fell asleep as if falling into an abyss…

FICTION

John Updike: “The Full Glass.”

FICTION

Julian Barnes: “East Wind.”

FICTION

Yiyun Li: “A Man Like Him.”

FICTION

Roddy Doyle: “Bullfighting.”

FICTION

Sana Krasikov: “The Repatriates.”

FICTION

T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Lie.”

FICTION

Ha Jin: “The House Behind a Weeping Cherry.”

FICTION

Jeffrey Eugenides: “Great Experiment.”

FICTION

Rivka Galchen: “The Region of Unlikeness.”

FICTION

John Burnside: “The Bellringer.”

FICTION

Hari Kunzru: “Raj, Bohemian.”

FICTION

Richard Ford: “Leaving for Kenosha.”

FICTION

Salman Rushdie: “The Shelter of the World.”

FICTION

Alice Munro: “Free Radicals.”

FICTION

Tessa Hadley: “Friendly Fire.”

FICTION

Louise Erdrich: “The Reptile Garden.”

FICTION

T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Ash Monday.”

FICTION

E. L. Doctorow: “Wakefield.”

FICTION

John Updike: “Outage.”

FICTION

Raymond Carver: “Beginners.”

FICTION

Anne Enright: “Natalie.”

FICTION

Junot Díaz: “Alma.”

FICTION

Jonathan Lethem: “The King of Sentences.”

FICTION

Jennifer Egan: “Found Objects.”

POETRY

Philip Levine: “Dearborn Suite.”

POETRY

Gerald Stern: “Spring.”

POETRY

Stanley Plumly: “The Crows at 3 A.M.”

POETRY

Arda Collins: “Low.”

POETRY

Sarah Arvio: “Neck.”

POETRY

Arthur Sze: “Looking Back on the Muckleshoot Reservation from Galisteo Street, Santa Fe.”

POETRY

Don Paterson: “Rain.”

POETRY

Bob Hicok: “A Primer.”

POETRY

Richard Wilbur: “Young Orchard.”

POETRY

Adonis: “Chair (A Dream).”

POETRY

Adonis: “Homeland.”

POETRY

Todd Boss: “One Can Miss Mountains.”

POETRY

Philip Schultz: “The God of Loneliness.”

POETRY

Matthew Dickman: “Grief.”

POETRY

Dora Malech: “Here Name Your.”

POETRY

Franz Wright: “The World of the Senses.”

POETRY

Rachel Hadas: “New Year.”

POETRY

Derek Walcott: “In Italy.”

POETRY

Emily Moore: “Auld Lang Syne.”

POETRY

Michael Longley: “In the New York Public Library.”

POETRY

Rae Armantrout: “Integer.”

POETRY

Martha Serpas: “The Diener.”

POETRY

Louise Glück: “March.”

POETRY

Stanley Moss: “Anonymous Poet.”

POETRY

James Logenbach: “On Beauty.”

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PERSONAL HISTORY

Edwidge Danticat: A life in Haiti.

The Literary Life

Dana Goodyear: What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?

SUMMER MOVIES

Fiction writers on making a first film, going to the drive-in, playing commando, and more.

Q. & A.

Robert Chandler: Weights and measures.

Q. & A.

Paul Theroux: Minstrel show.

Q. & A.

Maxim Biller: The sad optimist.

Q. & A.

David Hoon Kim: Living language.

Q. & A.

Jonathan Lethem: Beyond Brooklyn.

Q. & A.

Tatyana Tolstaya: Writing and Ravenna.

Q. & A.

Ann Goldstein: Translating Primo Levi.

Q. & A.

C. K. Williams: The blind joy of poetry.

Q. & A.

Roger Angell: Fifty years of editing fiction.

Q. & A.

Ismail Kadare: Life as a writer in Communist Albania.

AUDIO

Hilton Als: Reading “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” by Jean Stafford.

AUDIO

Louise Erdrich: Reading “Dance in America,” by Lorrie Moore.

AUDIO

Jonathan Lethem: Reading “The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber.

AUDIO

T. Coraghessan Boyle: Reading “Bullet in the Brain,” by Tobias Wolff.

AUDIO

E. L. Doctorow: Reading “Graven Image,” by John O’Hara.

AUDIO

Jhumpa Lahiri: Reading “A Day,” by William Trevor.

AUDIO

Antonya Nelson: Reading “When We Were Nearly Young,” by Mavis Gallant.

AUDIO

Paul Theroux: Reading “The Gospel According to Mark,” by Jorge Luis Borges.

AUDIO

Nell Freudenberger: On “Somewhere Else,” by Grace Paley.

AUDIO

George Saunders: Reading “You Must Know Everything,” by Isaac Babel.

AUDIO

Donald Antrim: Reading “I Bought a Little City,” by Donald Barthelme.

AUDIO

Edwidge Danticat: On “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie),” by Junot Díaz.

AUDIO

Richard Ford: Reading “Reunion,” by John Cheever.

AUDIO

Louise Erdrich: An excerpt from “The Plague of Doves.”

AUDIO

Philip Levine and Galway Kinnell: Readings.

AUDIO

Adam Zagajewski, Galway Kinnell, Deborah Garrison, and Vijay Seshadri: Readings.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Quinn’s Bishop: Alice Quinn on Elizabeth Bishop’s uncollected poems.

VIDEO

Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk: A conversation about homeland, from the 2007 New Yorker Festival.

VIDEO

Martin Amis and Ian Buruma: Thoughts on monsters, from the 2007 New Yorker Festival.

VIDEO

Gary Shteyngart and George Saunders: A paired reading, from the 2006 New Yorker Festival.
 
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