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2021:
- May 17, 2021 — J.M. Holmes: “Children of the Good Book”
- May 10, 2021 — Thomas McGuane: “Balloons”
- April 26 & May 3, 2021 — Margaret Atwood: “Old Babes in the Wood”
- April 19, 2021 — Jonas Eika: “Alvin”
- April 12, 2021 — Clare Sestanovich: “Separation”
- April 5, 2021 — Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: “Featherweight”
- March 29, 2021 — Aysegül Savas: “Future Selves”
- March 22, 2021 — Imbolo Mbue: “The Case For and Against Love Potions”
- March 15, 2021 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Shape of a Teardrop”
- March 8, 2021 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Crooked House”
- March 1, 2021 — Souvankham Thammovangsa: “Good-Looking”
- February 15 & 22, 2021 — Jhumpa Lahiri: “Casting Shadows”
- February 8, 2021 — Ben Okri: “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
- February 1, 2021 — Lauren Groff: “The Wind”
- January 25, 2021 — Allegra Goodman: “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
- January 18, 2021 — Graham Swift: “Blushes”
- January 4 & 11, 2021 — Andrea Lee: “The Rivals”
2020:
- December 21, 2020 — Mariana Enríquez: “Our Lady of the Quarry”
- December 14, 2020 — John Edgar Wideman: “Rwanda”
- December 7, 2020 — Paul Theroux: “Dietrologia”
- November 30, 2020 — Patricia Lockwood: “The Winged Thing”
- November 23, 2020 — Salman Rushdie: “The Old Man in the Piazza”
- November 16, 2020 — Rebecca Curtis: “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
- November 9, 2020 — George Saunders: “Ghoul”
- November 2, 2020 — Curtis Sittenfeld: “A for Alone”
- October 26, 2020 — Joy Williams: “Nettle”
- October 19, 2020 — Roddy Doyle: “Life Without Children”
- October 12, 2020 — David Rabe: “Suffocation Theory”
- October 5, 2020 — Joseph O’Neill: “Rainbows”
- September 28, 2020 — Lorrie Moore: “Face Time”
- September 21, 2020 — Nicole Krauss: “Switzerland”
- September 14, 2020 — Douglas Stuart: “The Englishman”
- September 7, 2020 — Susan Choi: “Flashlight”
- August 31, 2020 — David Wright Faladé: “The Sand Banks, 1861”
- August 24, 2020 — David Gilber: “Cicadia”
- August 17, 2020 — Madhuri Vijay: “You Are My Dear Friend”
- August 3 & 10, 2020 — Bryan Washington: “Heirlooms”
- July 27, 2020 — Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”
- July 20, 2020 — Marilynne Robinson: “Jack and Della”
- July 6 & 13, 2020 — Hari Kunzru: “A Transparent Woman”
- June 29, 2020 — Franz Kafka: “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time”
- June 22, 2020 — Scholastique Mukasonga: “Grief”
- June 8 & 15, 2020: Summer Fiction Issue
- June 1, 2020 — David Means: “Two Nurses, Smoking”
- May 25, 2020 — Fiona McFarlane: “Demolition”
- May 18, 2020 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Afterlife”
- May 11, 2020 — Katherine Dunn: “The Resident Poet”
- May 4, 2020 — Allan Gurganus: “The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor”
- April 27, 2020 — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “Bedtime Story”
- April 20, 2020 — Ben Lerner: “The Media”
- April 13, 2020 — Tessa Hadley: “The Other One”
- April 6, 2020 — George Saunders: “Love Letter”
- March 30, 2020 — Han One: “Futures”
- March 23, 2020 — Kate Folk: “Out There”
- March 16, 2020 — Matthew Klam: “The Liver”
- March 9, 2020 — Anne Enright: “Night Swim”
- March 2, 2020 — Adam Levin: “Kid Positive”
- February 17 & 24, 2020 — Haruki Murakami: “With the Beatles”
- February 10, 2020 — Anthony Veasna So: “Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts”
- February 3, 2020 — David Rabe: “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten”
- January 27, 2020 — Mary South: “You Will Never Be Forgotten”
- January 20, 2020 — Bryan Washington: “Visitor”
- January 13, 2020 — Douglas Stuart: “Found Wanting”
- January 6, 2020 — Jamil Jan Kochai: “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”
2019:
- December 30, 2019 — John Jeremiah Sullivan: Mother Nut
- December 23, 2019 — Camille Bordas: “Only Orange”
- December 16, 2019 — Emilio Fraia: “Sevastopol”
- December 9, 2019 — Clare Sestanovich: “Old Hope”
- December 2, 2019 — Roddy Doyle: “The Curfew”
- November 25, 2019 — John Edgar Wideman: “Arizona”
- November 19, 2019 — Weike Wang: “The Trip”
- November 11, 2019 — Joseph O’Neill: “The Flier”
- November 4, 2019 — Tiphanie Yanique: “God’s Caravan”
- October 28, 2019 — Tessa Hadley: “The Bunty Club”
- October 21, 2019 — David Means: “Are You Experienced?”
- October 14, 2019 — Joyce Carol Oates: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
- October 7, 2019 — Rion Amilcar Scott: “Shape-ups at Delilah’s”
- September 30, 2019 — Joy Williams: “The Fellow”
- September 23, 2019 — Thomas McGuane: “Wide Spot”
- September 16, 2019 — Garth Greenwell: “Harbor”
- September 9, 2019 — Louise Erdrich: “The Stone”
- September 2, 2019 — Kate Walbert: “To Do”
- August 26, 2019 — J. Robert Lennon: “The Loop”
- August 19, 2019 — George Saunders: “Elliott Spencer”
- August 5 & 12, 2019 — Elizabeth Strout: “Motherless Child”
- July 29, 2019 — Salman Rushdie: “The Little King”
- July 22, 2019 — Hanif Kureshi: “She Said He Said”
- July 8 & 15, 2019 — David Rabe: “Uncle Jim Called”
- July 1, 2019 — Emma Cline: “Son of Friedman”
- June 24, 2019 — Mary Grimm: “Back Then”
- June 10 & 17, 2019
- June 3, 2019 — Aysegül Savas: “Canvas”
- May 27, 2019 — Ben Lerner: “Ross Perot and China”
- May 20, 2019 — Camille Bordas: “The Presentation on Egypt”
- May 13, 2019 — Lauren Groff: “Brawler”
- May 6, 2019 — John L’Heureux: “The Escape”
- April 29, 2019 — Greg Jackson: “Poetry”
- April 22, 2019 — Catherine Lacey: “Cut”
- April 15, 2019 — Pat Barker: “Medusa”
- April 8, 2019 — Te-Ping Chen: “Lulu”
- April 1, 2019 — Colson Whitehead: “The Match
- March 25, 2019 — Lore Segal: “Dandelion”
- March 18, 2019 — Sally Rooney: “Color and Light”
- March 11, 2019 — Yiyun Li: “All Will Be Well”
- March 4, 2019 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Starlet Apartments”
- February 18 & 25, 2019 — Leïla Slimani: “The Confession”
- February 11, 2019 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Asleep at the Wheel”
- February 4, 2019 — Emma Cline: “What Can You Do with a General”
- January 28, 2019 — Haruki Murakami: “Cream”
- January 21, 2019 — Salvatore Scibona: “Do Not Stop”
- January 14, 2019 — Amos Oz: “All Rivers”
- January 7, 2019 — Taymour Soomro: “Philosophy of the Foot”
2018:
- December 24 & 31, 2018 — Mary Gaitskill: “Acceptance Journey”
- December 17, 2018 — Linn Ullmann: “Time for the Eyes to Adjust”
- December 10, 2018 — Joy Williams: “Chaunt”
- December 3, 2018
- November 26, 2018 — Garth Greenwell: “The Frog King”
- November 19, 2018 — Sam Lipsyte: “Show Recent Some Love”
- November 12, 2018 — Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song”
- November 5, 2018 — Tony Earley: “Backpack”
- October 29, 2018 — Bryan Washington: “Waugh”
- October 22, 2018 — Anne Carson: “Flaubert Again”
- October 15, 2018 — Kevin Barry: “The Coast of Leitrim”
- October 8, 2018 — John L’Heureux: “The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark”
- October 1, 2018 — Yiyun Li: “When We Were Young We Had Other Names”
- September 24, 2018 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “Poor Girl”
- September 17, 2018 — Tessa Hadley: “Cecilia Awakened”
- September 10, 2018 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Audition”
- September 3, 2018 — Haruki Murakami: “The Wind Cave”
- August 27, 2018 — Sana Krasikov: “Ways and Means”
- August 20, 2018 — Callan Wink: “A Refugee Crisis”
- August 6 & 13, 2018 — Richard Ford: “Displaced”
- July 30, 2018 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “I Walk Between the Raindrops”
- July 23, 2018 — Zadie Smith: “Now More Than Ever”
- July 9 & 16, 2018 — Lauren Groff: “Under the Wave”
- July 2, 2018 — Joseph O’Neill: “The First World”
- June 25, 2018 — Gary Shteyngart: “The Luck of Kokura”
- June 18, 2018 — Weike Wang: “Omakase”
- June 4 & 11, 2018 — Summer Fiction Issue
- May 28, 2018 — Ben Marcus: “Stay Down and Take It”
- May 21, 2018 — John L’Heureux: “The Long Black Line”
- May 14, 2018 — Edwidge Danticat: “Without Inspection”
- May 7, 2018 — Isaac Bashevis Singer: “The Boarder”
- April 30, 2018 — Robert Coover: “Treatments”
- April 23, 2018 — Yiyun Li: “A Flawless Silence”
- April 16, 2018 — Keith Gessen: “How Did We Come to Know You?”
- April 9, 2018 — Camille Bordas: “The State of Nature”
- April 2, 2018 — Sam Allingham: “The Intermediate Class”
- March 26, 2018 — Tommy Orange: “The State”
- March 19, 2018 — Gish Jen: “No More Maybe”
- March 12, 2018 — Joseph O’Neill: “The Poltroon Husband”
- March 5, 2018 — Nicole Krauss: “Seeing Ershadi”
- February 26, 2018 — William Trevor: “Mrs. Crasthorpe”
- February 12 & 19, 2018 — Rachel Kushner: “Stanville”
- February 5, 2018 — Jeffrey Eugenides: “Bronze”
- January 29, 2018 — Jhumpa Lahiri: “The Boundary”
- January 22, 2018 — John Edgar Wideman: “Writing Teacher”
- January 15, 2018 — David Gates: “Texas”
- January 8, 2018 — Sadia Shepard: “Foreign-Returned”
- January 1, 2018 — Colin Barrett: “Whoever Is There, Come on Through”
2017:
- December 18 & 25, 2017 — Zadie Smith: “The Lazy River”
- December 11, 2017 — Kristen Roupenian: “Cat Person”
- December 4, 2017 — J.M. Coetzee: “The Dog”
- November 27, 2017 — Will Mackin: “The Lost Troop”
- November 20, 2017 — David Gilbert: “The Sightseers”
- November 13, 2017 — Thomas McGuane: “Riddle”
- November 6, 2017 — Anne Enright: “The Hotel”
- October 30, 2017 — Joseph O’Neill: “The Sinking of the Houston”
- October 23, 2017 — Denis Johnson: “Strangler Bob”
- October 16, 2017 — Tessa Hadley: “Funny Little Snake”
- October 9, 2017 — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “Likes”
- October 2, 2017 — Ben Marcus: “Blueprints for St. Louis”
- September 25, 2017 — Jonas Hassen Khemiri: “As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died”
- September 18, 2017 — Edwidge Danticat: “Sunrise, Sunset”
- September 11, 2017 — Allegra Goodman: “F.A.Q.s”
- September 4, 2017 — Miranda July: “The Metal Bowl”
- August 28, 2017 — Lauren Groff: “Dogs Go Wolf”
- August 21, 2017 — Garth Greenwell: “An Evening Out”
- August 7 & 14, 2017 — Paul Theroux: The Vanishing Point
- August 7 & 14, 2017 — Don DeLillo: “The Itch”
- July 31, 2017 — Kristin Valdez Quade: “Christina the Astonishing (1150 – 1224)”
- July 24, 2017 — Cristina Henríquez: “Everything Is Far from Here”
- July 10 & 17, 2017 — Hye-young Pyun: “Caring for Plants”
- July 3, 2017 — Italo Calvino: “The Adventure of a Skier”
- June 26, 2017 — William Trevor: “The Piano Teacher’s Pupil”
- June 19, 2017 — Andrew Sean Greer: “It’s a Summer Day”
- June 5 & 12, 2017 — Fiction Issue
- May 29, 2017 — Samanta Schweblin: “The Size of Things”
- May 22, 2017 — Samantha Hunt: “A Love Story”
- May 15, 2017 — Etgar Keret: “Fly Already”
- May 8, 2017 — Yiyun Li: “A Small Flame”
- May 1, 2017 — David Means: “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother”
- April 24, 2017 — Lara Vapnyar: “Deaf and Blind”
- April 17, 2017 — Akhil Sharma: “You Are Happy?”
- April 10, 2017 — Emma Cline: “Northeast Regional”
- April 3, 2017 — John Lanchester: “Signal”
- March 27, 2017 — Victor Lodato: “Herman Melville, Volume 1”
- March 20, 2017 — F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The I.O.U.”
- March 13, 2017 — Anne Enright: “Solstice”
- March 6, 2017 — Zadie Smith: “Crazy They Call Me”
- February 27, 2017 — Lore Segal: “Ladie’s Lunch”
- February 13 & 20, 2017 — Curtis Sittenfeld: “The Prairie Wife”
- February 6, 2017 — David Gilbert: “Underground”
- January 30, 2017 — Alix Ohlin: “Quarantine”
- January 23, 2017 — Elif Batuman: “Constructed Worlds”
- January 16, 2017 — Thomas Pierce: “Chairman Spaceman”
- January 9, 2017 — Yiyun Li: “On the Street Where You Live”
- January 2, 2017 — Camille Bordas: “Most Die Young”
2016:
- December 19 & 26, 2016 — Mariana Enríquez: “Spiderweb”
- December 12, 2016 — Joseph O’Neill: “Pardon Edward Snowden”
- December 5, 2016 — Sam Shepard: “Tiny Man”
- November 28, 2016 — Robert Coover: “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”
- November 21, 2016 — Lauren Groff: “Flower Hunters”
- November 14, 2016 — Mohsin Hamid: “Of Windows and Doors”
- November 7, 2016 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Are We Not Men?”
- October 31, 2016 — Anne Carson: “Back the Way You Went”
- October 24, 2016 — Ottessa Moshfegh: “An Honest Woman”
- October 17, 2016 — Cynan Jones: “The Edge of the Shoal”
- October 10, 2016 — Kevin Barry: “Deer Season”
- October 3, 2016 — Etgar Keret: “To the Moon and Back”
- September 26, 2016 — Petina Gappah: “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu”
- September 19, 2016 — Rivka Galchen: “How Can I Help?”
- September 12, 2016 — Robert Coover: “Invasion of the Martians”
- September 5, 2016 — Jonathan Lethem: “A Gentleman’s Game”
- August 29, 2016 — Curtis Sittenfeld: “Gender Studies”
- August 22, 2016 — Thomas McGuane: “Papaya”
- August 8 & 15, 2016 — Tessa Hadley: “Dido’s Lament”
- August 1, 2016 — Joshua Ferris: “The Abandonment”
- July 25, 2016 — Joy Williams: “Stuff”
- July 11 & 18, 2016 — Michael Andreasen: “The King’s Teacup at Rest”
- July 4, 2016 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Fugitive”
- June 27, 2016 — Paul Theroux: “Upside-Down Cake”
- June 20, 2016 — Karen Russell: “The Bog Girl”
- June 6 & 13, 2016 — Fiction Issue
- May 30, 2016 — Charles Yu: “Fable”
- May 23, 2016 — Lauren Groff: “The Midnight Zone”
- May 16, 2016 — Akhil Sharma: “A Life of Adventure and Delight”
- May 9, 2016 — John L’Heureux: “Three Short Moments in a Long Life”
- May 2, 2016 — Alexandra Kleeman: “Choking Victim”
- April 25, 2016 — Lara Vapnyar: “Waiting for the Miracle”
- April 18, 2016 — Colin Barrett: “Anhedonia, Here I Come”
- April 11, 2016 — Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum: “The Burglar”
- April 4, 2016 — Kevin Canty: “God’s Work”
- March 28, 2016 — Ian McEwan: “My Purple Scented Novel”
- March 21, 2016 — Annie Proulx: “A Resolute Man”
- March 14, 2016 — Ann Beattie: “For the Best”
- March 7, 2016 — Fiona McFarlane: “Buttony”
- February 29, 2016 — Luke Mogelson: “Total Solar”
- February 22, 2016 — Don DeLillo: “Sine Cosine Tangent”
- February 8 & 15, 2016 — George Saunders: “Mother’s Day”
- February 1, 2016 — Adam Ehrlich Sachs: “The Philosophers”
- January 25, 2016 — Tatyana Tolstaya: “Aspic”
- January 18, 2016 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “The Story of a Painter”
- January 11, 2016 — Anne Carson: “1 = 1”
- January 4, 2016 — Ottessa Moshfegh: “The Beach Boy”
2015:
- December 21 & 28, 2015 — Tim Parks: “Bedtimes”
- December 14, 2015 — Dana Spiotta: “Jelly and Jack”
- December 7, 2015 — Martin Amis: “Oktober”
- November 30, 2015 — Rachel Kushner: “Fifty-Seven”
- November 23, 2015 — Ann Beattie: “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl”
- November 16, 2015 — Mark Haddon: “The Weir”
- November 9, 2015 — Julianne Pachico: “Honey Bunny”
- November 2, 2015 — Ariel Dorfman: “The Gospel According to Garcia”
- October 26, 2015 — Lesley Nneka Arimah: “Who Will Greet You at Home”
- October 19, 2015 — Ben Marcus: “Cold Little Bird”
- October 12, 2015 — Rivka Galchen: “Usl at the Stadium”
- October 5, 2015 — Tim Parks: “Vespa”
- September 28, 2015 — Thomas McGuane: “The Driver”
- September 21, 2015 — Amos Oz: “My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China”
- September 14, 2015 — Joy Williams: “Chicken Hill”
- September 7, 2015 — Danielle McLaughlin: “In the Act of Falling”
- August 31, 2015 — Jensen Beach: “The Apartment”
- August 24, 2015 — Alice McDermott: “These Short, Dark Days”
- August 10 & 17, 2015 — Michael Cunningham: “Little Man”
- August 3, 2015 — Heinz Insu Fenkl: “Five Arrows”
- July 27, 2015 — Tessa Hadley: “Silk Brocade”
- July 20, 2015 — Lauren Groff: “Ghosts and Empties”
- July 6 & 13, 2015 — Alejandro Zambra: “Reading Comprehension: Text No. 1”
- June 29, 2015 — Louise Erdrich: “The Flower”
- June 22, 2015 — Ben Marcus: “The Grow-Light Blues”
- June 8 & 15, 2015 — Fiction Issue
- June 1, 2015 — Salman Rushdie: “The Duniazát”
- May 25, 2015 — Dorthe Nors: “The Freezer Chest”
- May 18, 2015 — Justin Taylor: “So You’re Just What, Gone?”
- May 11, 2015 — Sheila Heti: “My Life Is a Joke”
- May 4, 2015 — Milan Kundera: “The Apologizer”
- April 27, 2015 — Luke Mogelson: “Peacetime”
- April 20, 2015 — Ann Beattie: “Major Maybe”
- April 13, 2015 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Apollo”
- April 6, 2015 — Kamel Daoud: “Musa”
- March 30, 2015 — Thomas Pierce: “This Is an Alert”
- March 23, 2015 — Colm Tóibín: “Sleep”
- March 16, 2015 — Sarah Braunstein: “All You Have to Do”
- March 9, 2015 — Stephen King: “A Death”
- February 23 & March 2, 2015 — Haruki Murakami: “Kino”
- February 16, 2015 — Amelia Gray: “Labyrinth”
- February 9, 2015 — Toni Morrison: “Sweetness”
- February 2, 2015 — Elizabeth Harrower: “Alice”
- January 26, 2015 — Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Inventions”
- January 19, 2015 — J. Robert Lennon: “Breadman”
- January 12, 2015 — Robert Coover: “The Crabapple Tree”
- January 5, 2015 — Colin Barrett: “The Ways”
2014:
- December 22 & 29, 2014 — Nuruddin Farah: “The Start of the Affair”
- December 15, 2014 — Elizabeth McKenzie: “Savage Breast”
- December 8, 2014 — Tim Parks: “Reverend”
- December 1, 2014 — Etgar Keret: “One Gram Short”
- November 24, 2014 — Brad Watson: “Eykelboom”
- November 17, 2014 — Dave Eggers: “The Alaska of Giants and Gods”
- November 10, 2014 — Antonya Nelson: “Primum Non Nocere”
- November 3, 2014 — Jess Row: “The Empties”
- October 27, 2014 — Tom Hanks: “Alan Bean Plus Four”
- October 20, 2014 — Kirstin Valdez Quade: “Ordinary Sins”
- October 13, 2014 — Haruki Murakami: “Scheherazade”
- October 6, 2014 — Kevin Canty: “Story, With Bird”
- September 29, 2014 — Paul La Farge: “Rosendale”
- September 22, 2014 — Victor Lodato: “Jack, July”
- September 15, 2014 — Danielle McLaughlin: “The Dinosaurs on Other Planets”
- September 8, 2014 — Thomas McGuane: “Motherlode”
- September 1, 2014 — Joseph O’Neill: “The Referees”
- August 25, 2014 — Tessa Hadley: “One Saturday Morning”
- August 11 & 18, 2014 — César Aira: “Picasso”
- August 4, 2014 — Paul Theroux: “Action”
- July 28, 2014 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Last Meal at Whole Foods”
- July 21, 2014 — Greg Jackson: “Wagner in the Desert”
- July 7 & 14, 2014 — Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake”
- June 30, 2014 — Rebecca Curtis: “The Pink House”
- June 23, 2014 — Maile Meloy: “Madame Lazarus”
- June 9 & 16, 2014 — Fiction Issue
- June 2, 2014 — Thomas Pierce: “Ba Baboon”
- May 26, 2014 — Alejandro Zambra: “Camilo”
- May 19, 2014 — Robert Coover: “The Waitress”
- May 12, 2014 — Lyudmila Ulitskaya: “The Fugitive”
- May 5, 2014 — Sam Lipsyte: “The Naturals”
- April 28, 2014 — Shirley Jackson: “The Man in the Woods”
- April 21, 2014 — Thomas McGuane: “Hubcaps”
- April 14, 2014 — Roddy Doyle: “Box Sets”
- April 7, 2014 — Jonathan Lethem: “Pending Vegan”
- March 31, 2014 — Louise Erdrich: “The Big Cat”
- March 24, 2014 — Tessa Hadley: “Under the Sign of the Moon”
- March 17, 2014 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Relive Box”
- March 10, 2014 — Yiyun Li: “A Sheltered Woman”
- March 3, 2014 — Denis Johnson: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”
- February 17 & 24, 2014 — Karl Ove Knausgaard: “Come Together”
- February 10, 2014 — Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge”
- February 3, 2014 — Donald Antrim: “The Emerald Light in the Air”
- January 27, 2014 — Robert Coover: “The Frog Prince
- January 20, 2014 — Akhil Sharma: “A Mistake”
- January 13, 2014 — Dinaw Mengestu: “The Paper Revolution”
- January 6, 2014 — Antonya Nelson: “First Husband”
2013:
- December 23 & 30, 2013 — Rebecca Curtis: “The Christmas Miracle”
- December 16, 2013 — Steven Millhauser: “Coming Soon”
- December 9, 2013 — Rivka Galchen: “The Late Novels of Gene Hackman”
- December 2, 2013 — Romesh Gunesekera: “Roadkill”
- November 25, 2013 — Lionel Shriver: “Kilifi Creek”
- November 18, 2013 — Jeffrey Eugenides: “Find the Bad Guy”
- November 11, 2013 — Chinelo Okparanta: “Benji”
- November 4, 2013 — Thomas McGuane: “Weight Watchers”
- October 28, 2013 — Haruki Murakami: “Samsa in Love”
- October 21, 2013 — Alice Munro: “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
- October 14, 2013 — Lara Vapnyar: “Katania”
- October 7, 2013 — Paul Theroux: “I’m the Meat, You’re the Knife”
- September 30, 2013 — Joshua Ferris: “The Breeze”
- September 23, 2013 — Tessa Hadley: “Bad Dreams”
- September 16, 2013 — Tahar Ben Jelloun: “By Fire”
- September 9, 2013 — Dorthe Nors: “The Heron”
- September 2, 2013 — Robert Coover: “The Colonel’s Daughter”
- August 26, 2013 — Yu Hua: “Victory”
- August 12 & 19, 2013 — Zadie Smith: “Meet the President!”
- August 5, 2013 — Shirley Jackson: “Paranoia”
- July 29, 2013 — Daniel Alarcón: “Collectors”
- July 22, 2013 — David Gilbert: “From a Farther Room”
- July 8 & 15, 2013 — Tobias Wolff: “All Ahead of Them”
- July 1, 2013 — Joyce Carol Oates: “Mastiff”
- June 24, 2013 — Thomas McGuane: “Stars”
- June 10 & 17, 2013 — Fiction Issue: Crimes and Misdemeanors
- June 3, 2013 — Akhil Sharma: “We Didn’t Like Him”
- May 27, 2013 — Steven Millhauser: “Thirteen Wives”
- May 20, 2013 — Ben Marcus: “The Dark Arts”
- May 13, 2013 — Fiona McFarlane: “Art Appreciation”
- May 6, 2013 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Gray Goose”
- April 29, 2013 — Joshua Ferris: “The Fragments”
- April 22, 2013 — Roberto Bolaño: “Mexican Manifesto”
- April 15, 2013 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite“
- April 8, 2013 — Tessa Hadley: “Valentine”
- April 1, 2013 — Sarah Braunstein: “Marjorie Lemke”
- March 25, 2013 — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: “The Judge’s Will”
- March 18, 2013 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Checking Out”
- March 11, 2013 — Will Mackin: “Kattekoppen”
- March 4, 2013 — Colm Tóibín: “Summer of ’38”
- February 25, 2013 — Paul Theroux: “The Furies”
- February 11 & 18, 2013 — Zadie Smith “The Embassy of Cambodia”
- February 4, 2013 — Nicole Krauss: “Zusya on the Roof”
- January 28, 2013 — Kevin Canty: “Mayfly”
- January 21, 2013 — Tessa Hadley: “Experience”
- January 14, 2013 — William Trevor: “The Women”
- January 7, 2013 — Rivka Galchen: “The Lost Order”
2012:
- December 24 & 31, 2012 — Thomas Pierce: “Shirley Temple Three”
- December 17, 2012 — Marisa Silver: “Creatures”
- December 10, 2012 — Steven Millhauser: “A Voice in the Night”
- December 3, 2012 — Antonya Nelson: “Literally”
- November 26, 2012 — Mo Yan: “Bull”
- November 19, 2012 — Maile Meloy: “Demeter”
- November 12, 2012 — David Gilbert: “Member/Guest”
- October 29 & November 5, 2012 — Kevin Barry: “Ox Mountain Death Song”
- October 22, 2012 — Callan Wink — “Breatharians”
- October 15, 2012 — George Saunders: “The Semplica-Girl Diaries”
- October 8, 2012 — Lara Vapnyar: “Fischer vs. Spassky”
- October 1, 2012 — Tony Earley: “Jack and the Mad Dog”
- September 24, 2012 — Mohsin Hamid: “The Third-Born”
- September 17, 2012 — Leonid Tsypkin: “The Last Few Kilometres”
- September 10, 2012 — Thomas McGuane: “The Casserole”
- September 3, 2012 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Birnam Wood”
- August 27, 2012 — Alice Munro: “Amundsen”
- August 13 & 20, 2012 — Justin Taylor: “After Ellen”
- August 6, 2012 — F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for the Light”
- July 30, 2012 — Zadie Smith: “Permission to Enter”
- July 23, 2012 — Junot Díaz: “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”
- July 9 & 16, 2012 — Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction”
- July 2, 2012 — Paul La Farge: “Another Life”
- June 25, 2012 — Shani Boianjiu: “Means of Suppressing Demonstrations”
- June 18, 2012 — Ben Lerner: “The Golden Vanity”
- June 4 & 11, 2012 — Science Fiction Issue
- May 28, 2012 — Lorrie Moore: “Referential”
- May 21, 2012 — Maile Meloy: “The Proxy Marriage”
- May 14, 2012 — Peter Stamm: “Sweet Dreams”
- May 7, 2012 — Louise Erdrich: “Nero”
- April 30, 2012 — Ian McEwan: “Hand on the Shoulder”
- April 23, 2012 — Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora”
- April 16, 2012 — Colum McCann: “Transatlantic”
- April 9, 2012 — Jonathan Lethem: “The Porn Critic”
- April 2, 2012 — Victor Lodato: “P.E.”
- March 26, 2012 — Antonya Nelson: “Chapter Two”
- March 19, 2012 — Rivka Galchen: “Appreciation”
- March 12, 2012 — Donald Antrim: “Ever Since”
- March 5, 2012 — Alice Munro: “Haven”
- February 27, 2012 — Thomas McGuane: “A Prairie Girl”
- February 13 & 20, 2012 — Michael Chabon: “Citizen Conn”
- February 6, 2012 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Los Gigantes”
- January 30, 2012 — Alice McDermott: “Someone”
- January 23, 2012 — Roberto Bolaño: “Labyrinth”
- January 26, 2012 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy”
- January 9, 2012 — John Lanchester: “Expectations”
- January 2, 2012 — Etgar Keret: “Creative Writing”
2011:
- December 19 & 26, 2011 — Margaret Atwood: “Stone Mattress”
- December 12, 2011 — Nathan Englander: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank”
- December 5, 2011 — César Aira: “The Musical Brain”
- November 28, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Leaving Maverley”
- November 21, 2011 — Sam Lipsyte: “The Climber Room”
- November 14, 2011 — Steven Millhauser: “Miracle Polish”
- November 7, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “The Stain”
- October 31, 2011 — George Saunders: “Tenth of December”
- October 24, 2011 — Caitlin Horrocks: “Sun City”
- October 17, 2011 — (no fiction this issue)
- October 10, 2011 — David Long: “Oubliette”
- October 3, 2011 — Thomas McGuane: “The House on Sand Creek”
- September 26, 2011 — Callan Wink: “Dog Run Moon”
- September 19, 2011 — Ann Beattie: “Starlight”
- September 12, 2011 — Yi Mun-Yol: “An Anonymous Island”
- September 5, 2011 — Haruki Murakami: “Town of Cats”
- August 29, 2011 — David Means: “El Morro”
- August 15 & 22, 2011 — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: “Gilgul”
- August 8, 2011 — Ben Marcus: “What Have You Done?”
- August 1, 2011 — Justin Torres: “Reverting to a Wild State”
- July 25, 2011 — Robert Coover: “Matinée”
- July 11 & 18, 2011 — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: “Aphrodisiac”
- July 4, 2011 — Julian Barnes: “Homage to Hemingway”
- June 27, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Gravel”
- June 13 & 20, 2011 — Fiction Issue
- June 6, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “Clever Girl”
- May 30, 2011 — Kate Walbert: “M&M World”
- May 23, 2011 — Ron Rash: “The Trusty”
- May 16, 2011 — Michael Ondaatje: “The Cat’s Table”
- May 9, 2011 — Donald Antrim: “He Knew”
- May 2, 2011 — Sam Lipsyte: “Deniers”
- April 25, 2011 — Thomas McGuane: “The Good Samaritan”
- April 18, 2011 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “A Withered Branch”
- April 11, 2011 — Keith Ridgway: “Goo Book”
- April 4, 2011 — Ramona Ausubel: “Atria”
- March 28, 2011 — Haruki Murakami: “U.F.O. in Kushiro”
- March 21, 2011 — Ben Marcus: “Rollingwood”
- March 14, 2011 — Robert Coover: “Going for a Beer”
- March 7, 2011 — David Foster Wallace: “Backbone”
- February 28, 2011 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Paranoia”
- February 14 & 21, 2011 — Mary Gaitskill: “The Other Place”
- February 7, 2011 — Tessa Hadley: “Honor”
- January 31, 2011 — Alice Munro: “Axis”
- January 24, 2011 — Hisham Matar: “Naima”
- January 17, 2011 — Amos Oz: “The King of Norway”
- January 10, 2011 — Louise Erdrich: “The Years of My Birth”
- January 3, 2011 — Steven Millhauser: “Getting Closer”
2010:
- December 20 & 27, 2010 — George Saunders: “Escape from Spiderhead”
- December 13, 2010 — Nuruddin Farah: “Youngthing”
- December 6, 2010 — Jim Gavin: “Costello”
- November 29, 2010 — Samantha Hunt: “The Yellow”
- November 22, 2010 — E.L. Doctorow: “Assimilation”
- November 15, 2010 — Tessa Hadley: “The Trojan Prince”
- November 8, 2010 — Jim Shepard: “Boys Town”
- November 1, 2010 — Frances Hwang: “Blue Roses”
- October 25, 2010 — David Means: “Tree Line, Kansas, 1934”
- October 18, 2010 — Richard Powers: “To the Measures Fall”
- October 11, 2010 — Alice Munro: “Corrie”
- October 4, 2010 — Sam Lipsyte: “The Dungeon Master”
- September 27, 2010 — Chris Adrian: “The Warm Fuzzies”
- September 20, 2010 — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Birdsong”
- September 13, 2010 — Wells Tower: “The Landlord”
- September 6, 2010 — Nell Freudenberger: “An Arranged Marriage”
- August 30, 2010 — Yiyun Li: “The Science of Flight”
- August 16 & 23, 2010 — Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives”
- August 9, 2010 — David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure”
- August 2, 2010 — Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn”
- July 26, 2010 — Karen Russell: “The Dredgeman’s Revelation”
- July 12 & 19, 2010 — Dinaw Mengestu: “An Honest Exit”
- July 5, 2010 — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “The Erlking”
- June 28, 2010 — Nicole Krauss: “The Young Painters”
- June 14 & 21, 2010 — 20 Under 40 Issue
- Joshua Ferris: “The Pilot”
- Jonathan Safran Foer: “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly”
- Phillip Meyer: “What You Do Out Here, When You’re Alone”
- Rivka Galchen: “The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire”
- Gary Shteyngart: “Lenny Hearts Eunice”
- ZZ Packer: “Dayward”
- Salvatore Scibona: “The Kid”
- C.E. Morgan: “Twins”
- June 7, 2010 — Jeffrey Eugenides: “Extreme Solitude”
- May 31, 2010 — Jonathan Franzen: “Agreeable”
- May 24, 2010 — Roddy Doyle: “Ash”
- May 17, 2010 — Nathan Englander: “Free Fruit for Young Widows”
- May 10, 2010 — Dagoberto Gilb: “Uncle Rock”
- May 3, 2010 — Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova”
- April 26, 2010 — E.L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive”
- April 19, 2010 — Roberto Bolaño: “The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura”
- April 12, 2010 — Ben Loory: “The TV”
- April 5, 2010 — Janet Frame: “Gavin Highly”
- March 29, 2010 — Joyce Carol Oates: “I.D.”
- March 22, 2010 — Junot Díaz: “The Pura Principle”
- March 15, 2010 — David Means: “The Knocking”
- March 8, 2010 — Jennifer Egan: “Ask Me If I Care”
- March 1, 2010 — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Appetite”
- February 15 & 22, 2010 — Claire Keegan: “Foster”
- February 8, 2010 — Roberto Bolaño: “William Burns”
- February 1, 2010 — Kevin Barry: “Fjord of Killary”
- January 25, 2010 — E.O. Wilson: “Trailhead”
- January 18, 2010 — T. Coraghessan Boyle: “A Death in Kitchawank”
- January 11, 2010 — Jennifer Egan: “Safari”
- January 4, 2010 — Uwem Akpan: “Baptizing the Gun”
2009:
- December 21 & 28, 2009 — Helen Simpson: “Diary of an Interesting Year”
- December 14, 2009 — David Foster Wallace: “And All That”
- December 7, 2009 — Ian McEwan: “The Use of Poetry”
- November 30, 2009 — Don DeLillo: “Midnight in Dostoevsky”
- November 23, 2009 — Sam Shepard: “Indianapolis (Highway 74)”
- November 16, 2009 — Yiyun Li: “Alone”
- November 9, 2009 — Stephen King: “Premium Harmony”
- November 2, 2009 — Javier Marias: “While the Women Are Sleeping”
- October 26, 2009 — Jonathan Lethem: “Procedure in Plain Air”
- October 19, 2009 — Julian Barnes: “Complicity”
- October 12, 2009 — Tessa Hadley: “The Godchildren”
- October 5, 2009 — George Saunders: “Victory Lap”
- September 29, 2009 — Marisa Silver: “Temporary”
- September 21, 2009 — Sam Shepard: “Land of the Living”
- September 14, 2009 — Paul Therous: “The Lower River”
- September 7, 2009 — Orhan Pamuk: “Distant Relations”
- August 31, 2009 — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “The Fountain House”
- August 24, 2009 — Dave Eggers: “Max at Sea”
- August 10 & 17, 2009 — Sherman Alexie: “War Dances”
- August 3, 2009 — Joshua Ferris: “The Valetudinarian”
- July 27, 2009 — Kirstin Valdez Quade: “The Five Wounds”
- July 20, 2009 — William Styron: “Rat Beach”
- July 6 & 13, 2009 — Lorrie Moore: “Childcare”
- Jun 29, 2009 — Stephen O’Connor: “Ziggurat”
- June 22, 2009 — Tim Gautreaux: “Idols”
- June 8 & 15, 2009 — Fiction Issue
- Jonathan Franzen: “Good Neighbors”
- Edna O’Brien: “Old Wounds”
- Téa Obreht: “The Tiger’s Wife”
- June 1, 2009 — Craig Raine: “Love Affair with Secondaries”
- May 25, 2009 — Jonathan Lethem: “Ava’s Apartment”
- May 18, 2009 — Salman Rushdie: “In the South”
- May 11, 2009 — J.G. Ballard: “The Autobiography of J.G.B.”
- May 4, 2009 — Gail Hareven: “The Slows”
- April 27, 2009 — Guillermo Martínez: “Vast Hell”
- April 20, 2009 — Chris Adrian: “A Tiny Feast”
- April 13, 2009 — Colm Tóibín: “The Color of Shadows”
- April 6, 2009 — Brad Watson: “Visitation”
- March 30, 2009 — Craig Raine: “Julia and Byron”
- March 23, 2009 — Tessa Hadley: “She’s the One”
- March 16, 2009 — No fiction; large selection of recent John Updike poems
- March 9, 2009 — David Foster Wallace: “Wiggle Room”
- March 2, 2009 — A.M. Homes: “Brother on Sunday”
- February 23, 2009 — Italo Calvino: “The Daughters of the Moon”
- February 9 & 16, 2009 — Steven Millhauser: “The Invasion from Outer Space”
- February 2, 2009 — George Saunders: “Al Roosten”
- January 26, 2009 — Aravind Adiga: “The Elephant”
- January 19, 2009 — Antonya Nelson: “Soldier Joy”
- January 12, 2009 — Joyce Carol Oates: “Pumpkin Head”
- January 5, 2009 — Julian Barnes: “The Limner”
