The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “
Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the
New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“
The Reverse Bug,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead.