On The Writer’s Voice podcast, Souvankham Thammavongsa reads “Floating,” her story from the March 30, 2026, issue of The New Yorker.
,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “After he left, I said to my friend, “I like him. Is he single?” My friend said he’d never mentioned a partner.
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Against the Encroaching Grays,” by C. D. Wright, and his own poem “Almost Home.”The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian on the relationship between the two countries, and how Cubans might feel about an American intervention.Jason Zengerle, who wrote “Hated by All the Right People,” describes how an inside-the-Beltway journalist brought far-right extremism to the mainstream of American politics.The Washington Roundtable on the Iran WarDhruv Khullar on the latest research on GLP-1 drugs, which, though typically used to manage diabetes and obesity, are showing promise as groundbreaking treatments for addictions of all kinds.The reported use of Claude in recent military operations has shifted the Overton window around A.I. in warfare—and sparked a battle between Anthropic and the Department of War.
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