[5] In 2003, Treisman took the helm of the magazine's Fiction section after then-Fiction Editor Bill Buford transitioned to other staff work and writing projects of his own.
[6] In 2005, the magazine centered their annual Fiction issue on stories of international writers, highlighting such voices as Chile's Roberto Bolaño and Japan's Yōko Ogawa.
[7][8] One story, "Cat Person", published in a December 2017 issue of The New Yorker, follows disturbing developments in a relationship between a 20-year-old woman and an older man.
In an interview with Scroll.in in early 2018, Treisman described her response and decision to publish the story: "It was an intense read and maybe uncomfortable.
[19] At the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto in November 2024, the show did a live episode where Margaret Atwood read Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant.
[22] In 2017, Bloomsbury USA published The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, a book Treisman co-authored with the artist Walter Hopps and Anne Doran.
The Dream Colony is a memoir and visual catalogue of Hopps' life as a curator of art in the second half of the 20th century.
In his early twenties, Hopps founded the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, which spotlighted West Coast artists.
Treisman describes Hopps in an interview with The Paris Review: "I think he saw art not as a historical progression—a series of movements over time, each one leading to the next—but as something that happens, in a sense, all at once, a world in which a Renaissance Pietà exists alongside a Duchamp urinal or a Warhol soup can.
The list featured 10 women and 10 men who, at the time, had at least one complete book or manuscript and a story on hand for the magazine to publish.
Names on the list included Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, Joshua Ferris, Yiyun Li, ZZ Packer, and Salvatore Scibona.
In particular, she wrote about her experiences working with David Foster Wallace[26] and about Mavis Gallant's legacy and contributions to the short story.