Behind the renowned prose, there was a writer constantly weighing the costs of freedom and submission.
By Maggie Doherty
A Critic at Large
The War Inside H. G. Wells
In his nonfiction, he laid out a vision of endless human progress. In his fiction, he foretold a darker truth.
By Adam Gopnik
The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine
Gish Jen Reads “Detective Dog”
The author reads her story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
Books
Briefly Noted
“The Wrong End of the Telescope,” “The Book of Mother,” “The Ottomans,” and “After One Hundred Winters.”
Poetry
Poems
“Kaepernick”
“The football players / are kneeling because, I say, anyone could kill / your Black son.”
By Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Poems
“Former Lives”
“It can lead to the practice of tolerance, the notion / That the soul returns to earth more than once.”
By Carl Dennis
On This Day
Fiction
“The Itch”
On Don DeLillo’s birthday, revisit a short story by him, published in the magazine in 2017: “She spoke absently about the pathology of the skin. He liked this term. It suggested a kind of criminal intent or an evil that befalls a person.”
By Don DeLillo
Fiction Podcast
Joy Williams Reads Don DeLillo
Joy Williams joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Itch,” by Don DeLillo.
More from The New Yorker
Pop Music
Taylor Swift’s Quest for Justice
With “Red (Taylor’s Version),” Swift seeks to reclaim control in her business affairs and in matters of the heart.
By Carrie Battan
Photo Booth
An Architectural Survey in Search of America
A new book uses material from the Historic American Buildings Survey to capture something of the national character.
By Vince Aletti
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