Sheila Heti on the Mystery of Lust
The New Yorker · 26 Jul 2026

Sheila Heti on the Mystery of Lust

No, the story was actually written for a magazine that commissioned me to write a piece for them about lust. They were doing a series on the seven deadly sins. I figured, since they wanted me to write a story about lust, they probably wanted a lot of sex in it, so I put in as much as I thought would


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