The New Yorker Fiction Forum

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2013:

• June 10 & 17, 2013 — Fiction Issue: Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Dashiell Hammett: “An Inch and a Half of Glory”
  • Annie Proulx: “Rough Deeds”
  • Ed Park: “Slide to Unlock”
  • Sherman Alexie: “Happy Trails”
  • Cormac McCarthy: “Scenes of the Crime”
  • Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love”
• 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
  • Sam Lipsyte: “The Republic of Empathy”
  • Junot Díaz: “Monstro”
  • Jonathan Lethem: “My Internet”
  • Jennifer Egan: “Black Box”
• 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
  • George Saunders: “Home”
  • Jeffrey Eugenides: “Asleep in the Lord”
  • Lauren Groff: “Above and Below”
• 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”