Listen to The New Yorker
Turn any newyorker.com article into audio. Open the piece in Chrome, click CastReader, and listen from the dek through the last paragraph — with paragraph highlighting. Built for features, essays, and fiction.
Why Listen to The New Yorker with CastReader?
New Yorker features are routinely 6,000–15,000 words. Audio is the only way most readers actually finish them.
Full Article
Dek, Byline, Body, End
CastReader reads the dek (the italic intro line), the byline, and the full body in order. Section breaks (the dingbat ornaments) are respected as short pauses. Your audio starts with 'By [Author]' and ends at the last paragraph of the piece.
Fiction Clean
Reads Short Stories End to End
The New Yorker's fiction section publishes a story a week. CastReader reads the story as one continuous narrative, with paragraph highlighting — no sidebar subscribe prompts interrupting the audio, no 'also by this author' rails breaking the flow.
Clean Audio
Skips Subscribe Rails and Cartoon Captions
Newyorker.com stacks subscribe banners, 'Top Stories' rails, and cartoon-of-the-week widgets around every article. CastReader reads only the piece itself — not the subscribe button, not the related-articles strip, not the cartoon caption in the sidebar.
100% Free
Unlimited Longform Listening
No signup, no quota. When you have a 12,000-word Profile of someone you've never heard of and 90 minutes of driving ahead, CastReader makes that fit the commute instead of the weekend.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything about listening to The New Yorker with CastReader
How do I listen to a New Yorker article?
Open the piece on newyorker.com in Chrome (URLs look like /magazine/2026/04/27/the-title or /news/annals-of-obsession/...). Click the CastReader icon. It reads the dek, byline, and full body.
What about the paywall?
CastReader reads what your browser rendered. If you're signed in as a subscriber, full text is in the DOM and we read it. If you've hit the metered-access wall, we read the excerpt visible to you. We don't bypass paywalls.
Does it work on fiction?
Yes. New Yorker fiction stories read end-to-end as continuous narrative. Paragraph highlighting follows along, which is the right UX for a short story — you can see where in the story the audio is, not just how far into a 40-minute audio file.
What about The New Yorker Radio Hour / podcast?
Those are audio already. CastReader is for reading the magazine's written articles — features, essays, 'Talk of the Town' items, fiction, Daily Shouts, the Letter from… series, Personal History pieces. If you want to listen to the podcast, open the podcast app.
What gets skipped?
Subscribe banners, 'Support great journalism' prompts, newsletter signup boxes, 'Top Stories' rails, cartoon-of-the-week sidebars, and the site footer. Only the article itself reads.
Can I adjust reading speed?
Yes. 0.5x through 3x. Longform features play well at 1.5x–1.8x. Fiction reads nicely at 1.2x so the pacing is closer to how a story is meant to be heard.
Does it handle 'Talk of the Town' short pieces?
Yes. The short 'Talk' pieces (typically 1,000–2,000 words each) read cleanly. A single Talk issue is about a 15-minute listen at 1.5x.
Is it free? Any limits?
Completely free with no page or character limits. No account needed. CastReader is a free browser extension for Chrome and Edge.
Start Listening to The New Yorker
Completely free. No signup. No limits. Install CastReader and open any New Yorker piece.