This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month we're going to hear Awaiting Orders by Tobias Wolfe,
which appeared in The New Yorker in July of 2005. Morse had spent 20 of his 39 years in the army.
He was not one of those who claimed to love it, but he belonged to it as to a tribe.
Bound to those around him by lines of unrefusable obligation, love being finally beside him.
Who is going to win control of Congress this November?
And what is it going to mean for the final two years of Donald Trump's disruptive presidency?
I'm Susan Glasser.
I'm Jane Mayer.
And I'm Evan Osnos.
We host the Washington Roundtable on the New Yorker's Political Scene podcast.
We're following what key races could tip the balance of power in Washington this fall.
We're also going to go deep on the influence of dark money.
And tech billionaires.
So join us in the run-up to the midterms in 2026. Subscribe to the political scene wherever you get your podcasts.
One day last year, police entered a mansion in L.A.
County and discovered the couple that lived there had almost two dozen children,
nearly every one of them born through surrogates.