Isaac Bashevis Singer

This week’s New Yorker story is Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “The Boarder,” translated from the Yiddish by the author.

This week’s New Yorker fiction is “Inventions,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer and translated from the Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin. The story was written in 1965 and translated to English in the late 1960s, but it’s only making its way to us now.