The first installment in a series of recommendations by New Yorker writers.

This week’s story, “ Deal-Breaker ,” will appear in your new collection, “ This Is Not About Us ,” which comes out in ...

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With wry understatement, she adds, “I also happened to believe it was true.” The book arrives at a moment when conversion may ...

Grief may or may not have its five stages, but the stages of dying are implacable. We witnesses know the scenes and the atrocious acts that compose them: the first signs (“I’ve been having some funny ...

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...