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Publications

New Yorker

Science

The Neuroscience of Pain

Discovering why we hurt.

Nicola Twilley New Yorker May 2016 25min Permalink

Sports Media

Stephen A. Smith Won’t Stop Talking

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

Vinson Cunningham New Yorker Jun 2018 20min Permalink

World Media

The Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

Ed Caesar New Yorker Jun 2018 35min Permalink

Food Travel

Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast

A profile.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Feb 2017 50min Permalink

Politics

The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

Rivka Galchen New Yorker May 2018 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Fearless Cinema of Claire Denis

A profile of the filmmaker.

Alice Gregory New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink

History Politics

Will the Fervor to Impeach Donald Trump Cause a Democratic Civil War?

Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.

Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2018 30min Permalink

Politics

Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 10min Permalink

Politics

Trump vs. the "Deep State"

How the administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance, one civil servant at a time.

Evan Osnos New Yorker May 2018 Permalink

Crime

The Abuse Allegations that Brought Down New York's Attorney General

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink

Health

The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul

Kids have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.

Jia Tolentino New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Spy Who Came Home

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

Ben Taub New Yorker May 2018 40min Permalink

Best Article

The Castaways

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

Mark Singer New Yorker Feb 2007 45min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Flawless Silence"

A Chinese-American woman's past and present collide.

Yiyun Li New Yorker Apr 2018 20min Permalink

Crime Food

The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life

First the red bees arrived. Then a Red Hook cherry factory’s true purpose came to light.

Ian Frazier New Yorker Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article

The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma

“I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.”

Junot Díaz New Yorker Apr 2018 20min Permalink

Black Ice, Near-Death, and Transcendence on I-91

A car trip north ends in a terrifying slide off the highway.

John Seabrook New Yorker Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Politics World

A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2018 45min Permalink

Best Article

How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2018 35min Permalink

Music

How to Sell a Thought

How 88rising is making a place for Asians in hip-hop.

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Hua Hsu on the Longform Podcast

Hua Hsu New Yorker Mar 2018 25min Permalink

Politics

Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point

How long will the Secretary of State have his job?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Oct 2017 45min Permalink

Media

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

The future of online speech.

Andrew Marantz New Yorker Mar 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2018 1h Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Show the Monster

A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.

Daniel Zalewski New Yorker Jan 2011 50min Permalink

World

The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar

The profits and controversy of posthumous celebrity.

Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Feb 2018 35min Permalink

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