Emily Nussbaum is a television critic at The New Yorker.
"I actually feel this kind of crazy cause ... because TV is condescended to, has been put down and treated like it's junk, and TV deserves to have the kind of criticism that expects it to be great. To me it's a really engaging and satisfying cause, no matter whether I'm praising or criticizing something."</i>
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A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.
On reading and writing fan fiction.
A profile of Hugo Chávez.
A history of how Tuareg separatists, jihadists seeking a “desert caliphate,” cigarette smugglers, and narcotraffickers have turned Northern Mali into “the globe’s most significant terrorist threat.”
The people behind the search for the “God particle.”
The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.
The story of a whale attack.
The science of sleeplessness.
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.
On the Israeli national baseball team.
The battle over what to do with New York City’s worst teachers.
A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.
A profile of the late-night host.
The Branch Davidians today, 20 years after the deadly standoff.
A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.
How the borough bounced back.
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”
Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.
From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.
On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.
Keith Gessen is the founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to The New Yorker.
"The founding editors are slowing down. We're not mad at anyone anymore. We think everything is great. ... But amazingly at n+1, we've had this younger generation of angry young women kind of rise up. Something has created space for young editors to come in and be really angry ... But that's holy, that's the thing that makes great writing: being angry."
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