The New Yorker: Fiction

Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021

Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

Ann Patchett Reads Maile Meloy

Susan Choi Reads Jennifer Egan

Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

Téa Obreht Reads Thomas McGuane

Weike Wang Reads Lara Vapnyar

Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry

Hisham Matar Reads Colm Tóibín

Chang-rae Lee Reads Steven Millhauser

Samantha Hunt Reads Yiyun Li

Elizabeth Strout Reads William Trevor

ZZ Packer Reads Lesley Nneka Arimah

David Gilbert Reads Samantha Hunt

Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich

Allegra Goodman Reads Eudora Welty

Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami

Kristen Roupenian Reads Shirley Jackson

Deborah Treisman Reads David Foster Wallace

"Good People" by David Foster Wallace depicts the internal moral struggle of Lane Dean, a young man facing an unplanned pregnancy with his girlfriend, Sherry. The narrative explores themes of faith, hypocrisy, and the paralysis of decision-making, drawing parallels to Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" through it...