New YorkerestThe essential reads from every New Yorker issue

Joan Silber

Joan Silber is the author of the novel “ Mercy ,” among other books.

Read more on The New Yorker →

1 picks · 2025

Featured Picks

“Safety”
fiction ·

Fiction by Joan Silber, the author of “Mercy” and “Improvement”: It horrified me to be from a species that did such things, over and over, but what good did my horror do?