“Calm Sea and Hard Faring,” by Yiyun Li
The New Yorker
by Yiyun LiMarch 1, 2026
Fiction by Yiyun Li, the author of “The Book of Goose” and “Things in Nature Merely Grow”: The children, two by two, walked into the woods solemnly, the hurricane lamp swinging, the light vanishing and then returning.
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Originally published on The New Yorker on 3/1/2026