The author reads his story from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine.
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Pat Martin
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George Saunders reads his story “Appeasement, Ohio,” from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among other honors, Saunders is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” and two novels, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which was awarded the Booker Prize in 2017, and “Vigil,” which was published earlier this year.
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