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Fiction by Sally Rooney: “Alice, she said, am I going to have to live in the real world one day? Without looking up, Alice snorted and said, Jesus, no, absolutely not.”
The author discusses “Life Without Children,” his story from this week’s issue of the magazine.
Fiction by Sally Rooney: “At what point did his relations with Pauline begin to violate the ordinary rules of social contact? It started normally enough. Or did it?”
Fiction by William Trevor: “She’d been impulsive once upon a time, hasty and not caring that she was. Tups had called her a spur-of-the-moment girl.”
Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Mary Lavin’s “In the Middle of the Fields,” from a 1961 issue of the magazine.
Sally Rooney’s début, “Conversations with Friends,” is a bracing study of ideas. But it’s even smarter about people.
My characters tend to provide me with all sorts of detail about their current situations, but almost nothing of their futures.
Fiction by Joseph O’Neill. “There are a lot of ethical, pleasant, and dependable people notionally out there. It’s intimidating, frankly.”
There’d nearly been a fight. People were drinking wine like it was beer and a man Sam didn’t know had thumped the table and shouted that “House of Cards” was better than “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” put together.
Criticism, contention, and conversation about books that matter, from The New Yorker.
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The author talks about reimagining stories inspired by a 14th century pandemic, the US election and the New Yorker’s attempt to ‘destroy’ his mother Edna O’Brien
Increasingly, characters seem to be rewarded for the moral work of feeling bad.
Fiction by Kevin Barry: “He was tormented now by his own happiness. He could not imagine a future day without Katherine.”
“There was no one to ask which way to go. No cleaners, no security, no passengers pulling luggage or pushing trolleys in hijabs or shorts or travelling shawls.”
Colin Barrett’s flash-fiction story about three Irish factory workers and their chance encounter with a bald man.
Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Brian Friel’s “The Saucer of Larks,” from a 1960 issue of the magazine.
Fiction by Danielle McLaughlin: “It was dizzying: the unimaginable expanses of space and time, the vast, spinning universe.”
Reviews of “The Most Dangerous Book,” “Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters,” “The Mad and the Bad,” and “Time Present and Time Past.”
Paul Muldoon has been The New Yorker’s poetry editor since 2007. He is also the host of the new New Yorker Poetry Podcast. The first episode features Philip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate. Levine reads and discusses with Muldoon a poem by Ellen Bass, as well as one of his own works. Here, Muldoon explains about what he hopes to achieve with this podcast, followed by the first episode in its entirety. You can subscribe to the New Yorker Poetry Podcast in the iTunes store..
It was Seamus Heaney’s unparalleled capacity to sweep all of us up in his arms that we’re honoring.
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