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Publications

New Yorker

Business

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

John Seabrook New Yorker Jan 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Among the Insurrectionists

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2021 50min Permalink

Business

Trolling the Great Outdoors

As the wilderness gets overrun, the most hated man in the Rockies finds an audience of emulators and antagonists.

Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Jan 2021 Permalink

Arts

Sculpture and Flow

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

Julian Lucas New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Politics

The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Tech Media

Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

Anna Wiener New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Music

The Mask of Doom

A profile of MF Doom.

Ta-Nehisi Coates New Yorker Sep 2009 20min Permalink

History Health

The Plague Year

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Dec 2020 2h Permalink

Best Article

Chicago Christmas, 1984

How John, a father of 14, lost Christmas.

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George Saunders on the Longform Podcast

George Saunders New Yorker Dec 2003 10min Permalink

Arts

How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism

Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.

Merve Emre New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink

History Science

The Skeletons at the Lake

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Douglas Preston New Yorker Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Crime World Media

Murder in Malta

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2020 Permalink

The Art of Building the Impossible

The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes

Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Nov 2020 Permalink

Religion

When One Parent Leaves a Hasidic Community, What Happens to the Kids?

The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.

Larissa MacFarquhar New Yorker Nov 2020 40min Permalink

Best Article Food

The Egg Men

How breakfast got served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas.

Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Sep 2005 30min Permalink

Health

Tainted Earth

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

World

The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

Suki Kim New Yorker Nov 2020 35min Permalink

Crime

Money Pit

Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.

Rebecca Mead New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article History Politics

The Unpolitical Animal

How political science understands voters.

Lous Menand New Yorker Aug 2004 Permalink

Crime Politics

Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article

Two Soldiers

Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.

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Dan Baum died earlier this month.

Dan Baum New Yorker Aug 2004 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

In the Streets with Antifa

Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Oct 2020 40min Permalink

Travel

A Pilot's Son Takes Flight

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Oct 2020 Permalink

How to Spot a Military Impostor

On the people who lie about serving in the military and the detectives who try to expose them.

Rachel Monroe New Yorker Oct 2020 20min Permalink

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