Anne Enright reads her story “The Bridge Stood Fast,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather,” and the novels “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker Prize, “Actress,” and “The Wren, The Wren.”
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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”
Mona Awad reads her story “The Chartreuse,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl,” which won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, and “Rouge,” which was published in 2023. Her new novel, “We Love You, Bunny,” will come out in September.
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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021 and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the novel “Ask Me Again,” which was published last year.
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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” 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,” “Swing Time,” and “The Fraud,” which was published in 2023.
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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”
Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen,” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”; and “Lapvona,” which came out in 2022.
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