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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Having Sex With a Banana

"I had sex with mat. It finally happened, selana said," i thought to day this important step in my life has taken place." But how is it physically different than if i had just jammed in a banana? The dining hall seemed to have got a shipment of particularly large and under ripe bananas. "You don't feel like it's possible, but obviously your body's capacity is greater than your awareness", she writes.

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