The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/natural-history-fiction-clare-sestanovich],” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “Objects of Desire [https://www.amazon.com/Objects-Desire-Stories-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318099],” which came out in 2021 and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the novel “Ask Me Again [https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Me-Again-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318110],” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-silence-fiction-zadie-smith],” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others, is the author of two short-story collections and six novels, including “NW [https://www.amazon.com/NW-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143123939],” “Swing Time [https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Time-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143111647/],” and “The Fraud [https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0525558985],” which was published in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-comedian-fiction-ottessa-moshfegh],” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyDFLfb3X3GuX9pHLSGmmg8BHGes1Fid16M7eACzaEg8vXZco9q2],” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “My Year of Rest and Relaxation [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM1SV7g1BfkdyU3vcjvm5xtcyNP8HfYDq5HyT16o2TYQZsdsJmv]”; and “Lapvona [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6DmztF24N1FdoykS6QntETWSdY7m13ksdNRQgebqc2cvP2x],” which came out in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “Jubilee [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/jubilee-fiction-jhumpa-lahiri],” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud Award, among others, is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Interpreter of Maladies [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHB2wU5LkwL8M4soJwRsMAF2Rbccmar5Efh8dtjasusUKGXuJWG],” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “Roman Stories [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6GQzXoD493yizqe8TYq91yE4CWh7HJGagAf53imq6PWiHkp],” which was written in Italian and published in English in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Han Ong reads his story “Happy Days [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/happy-days-fiction-han-ong],” from the June 30, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH7WHjcwckpUCkCJk8xrBdUGMwnCrTySnBHs1HJcxP2i2PdHq1x]” and “The Disinherited [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHA9kTYBHF9PxSJiJQwtpoJoy6jBakPfGThUyHVFu9PRW4LAUCv].” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]