This Week in Fiction
Lee Chang-dong on South Korea in the Nineteen-Eighties and Today
The author discusses his story “The Leper.”
By Cressida Leyshon
Lauren Groff on Work and Love
The author discusses her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul.”
By Cressida Leyshon
David Szalay on the Inarticulacy of Experience
The author discusses his story “Plaster.”
By Dennis Zhou
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Debt, Cults, and Our Inner Algorithms
The author discusses his story “Minimum Payment Due.”
By Cressida Leyshon
Greg Jackson on the Intersection of Mind and World
The author discusses his story “The Honest Island.”
By Deborah Treisman
On a Newly Translated Story by Yukio Mishima
A conversation with John Nathan, a biographer of Yukio Mishima, who translated the story “From the Wilderness” in this week’s issue.
By Deborah Treisman