New YorkerestThe essential reads from every New Yorker issue

Lore Segal

Lore Segal is the author of several books, including “ Half the Kingdom ,” “ Her First American ,” and “ Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories .”

Read more on The New Yorker →

8 picks · 1961–2024

Featured Picks

“Stories About Us”
fiction ·

Fiction by Lore Segal, the author of “Other People’s Houses,” “Her First American,” and “Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories.”

Money, Fame, and Beautiful Women
fiction ·

Nathan Cone, a 42 year old poet who works at a think tank called Concordance Institute in Connecticut, has just learned through his colleagues that …

The First American
fiction ·

Fiction, from 1983: He looked at Ilka and said, “We’re standing here, side by side, but how do I know what you see?”

Other People's Houses, Santiago
fiction ·

In the summer of 1948, the writer, at age 20, followed her mother, her grandparents & her Uncle Paul to the Dominican Republic. She last had seen her …

Other People's Houses, Sosua
fiction ·

Paul, a medical student, a witty & romantic intellectual, and a Jew, had to leave his studies at the Vienna university in 1938. At Hachsharah, a Zionist …

Other People's Houses; Albert
fiction ·

In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish children from …

Other People’s Houses: The Married Couple
fiction ·

In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish children from …

Other People's Houses; Mrs. Levine's House
fiction ·

In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport to England that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish …