The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

In “Vigil,” spirits rehash the many sins of a dying industrialist.

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

The Booker-winning ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ author paints a weird and funny relationship between an ‘angel’ and an egotistical ...

We meet Jill Blaine first as she plummets toward K.J. Boone's Dallas mansion from “the elevation,” a celestial perch where a ...

George Saunders is at his most lively in the company of the dead. At ease with ghosts. In the 2022 Booker-winning Lincoln in ...

The prize-winning author’s philosophy of writing sounds like everything we need to know to become better people.

On October 25, 2025, the writers George Saunders and Zadie Smith took the stage with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, for a discussion at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival. She ...

Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call “theft at a grand scale” by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign — called “Stealing Isn’t ...