Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.)
This Week in Fiction
David Szalay on the Inarticulacy of Experience
The author discusses his story “Plaster.”
This Week in Fiction
Graham Swift on the Human Wilderness
The author discusses “Bruises,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
The New Yorker Interview
Hayley Williams, Without a Guidebook
The singer-songwriter talks about growing up in the South, trusting your teen-age self, getting divorced and getting exhausted, and the search for a home.
A Critic at Large
The Case Against the Trauma Plot
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?
Double Take
Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories
From The New Yorker’s archive: in honor of Veterans Day, poignant and moving stories of service members’ experiences.
Personal History
Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history.
The Current Cinema
Living History
The Military Life
The Return
A Reporter at Large
In the Crosshairs
A Reporter at Large
Atonement
Fiction
Boys Town
A Reporter at Large
The Last Tour
Annals of Psychology