Writers

The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades.

In “The Message,” Coates urges young writers to aspire to “nothing less than doing their part to save the world,” but his latest work reveals the limits of his own advice.

Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1999.

New works by the Zoomer and young millennial writers Gabriel Smith, Frankie Barnet, and Honor Levy share gonzo premises, bizarre imagery, exuberantly “unlikable” characters, and an eye-rolling contempt for the status quo.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2005.

The author discusses her story “The Particles of Order.”

Gao Ertai hasn’t returned to his homeland in years, but his memoirs have made him a new model of resistance.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2020.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.

A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career.

The author joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro. He reads and discusses “Before the Change,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1998.

Diane Seuss says, of writing her latest collection, “Modern Poetry,” “I really did feel that I didn’t know how to move forward without something like an answer.”

A new show about the Cold War, “Not All Propaganda Is Art,” reveals the dark, sometimes comic ironies of trying to control the world through culture.

Working with the author, who has died, at ninety-two, was both a thrill and a lesson in intentionality.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the stories “The Bible” and “The Stolen Pigeons,” which were published in The New Yorker in 2006 and 2007.

The author of “The Argonauts” and the new collection “Like Love” discusses the performative aspect of writing, reading her old work, and becoming “lightly interested” in genre for the first time.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Likes,” which was published in a 2017 issue of The New Yorker.

In her memoir of transitioning in her sixties, the writer assesses the cost of suppressing her identity for decades.

In his first novel, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar asks whether our pain matters, and to whom, and how it might be made to matter more.