Books & Fiction: What We Find When We Get Lost in Proust

Plus: Yi Lei’s poetry, and Thomas McGuane reads his story from this week’s issue. View in browser | Update your preferences Books What We Find When We Get Lost in Proust There are six Marcel Prousts. Is there one key to them all? By Adam Gopnik Essays & Criticism Under Review The Second Life of Yi Lei’s Poetry An encounter with Tracy K. Smith eased the late Chinese poet’s emergence into the Anglophone world. By Han Zhang Personal History The Wrong Jason Brown A son, his mother, and a legacy of abuse. By Jason Brown Books Briefly Noted “Peaces,” “Libertie,” “The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,” and “Four Lost Cities.” Poetry Poems “Next Day” “What’s to become of us?” By Cynthia Zarin Poems “Notes from the Ruined City” “God has no clock / but the muezzin’s song.” By Aria Aber The Writer’s Voice The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine Thomas McGuane Reads “Balloons” The author reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of the magazine. More from The New Yorker Culture Desk The Great New York City Roller-Skating Boom In 1980, the whole city seemed to be on skates. I’m not sure why. By Nick Paumgarten The New Yorker Documentary A Son’s Note from Prison: “Your Love Is a Verb” “On Mother’s Day” portrays how a parent-child bond persists through the separation of incarceration. You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for Books & Fiction from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.