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Publications

New Yorker

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

Politics

Chase Strangio’s Victories for Transgender Rights

The ACLU attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word.

Masha Gessen New Yorker Oct 2020 25min Permalink

World

The Sealed City

Nine days in Wuhan.

Peter Hessler New Yorker Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Arts

Marilynne Robinson’s Essential American Stories

A profile of the author, who “looks to history not just for the origins of America’s ailments but for their remedy, too.”

Casey Cep New Yorker Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Science

The Elusive Peril of Space Junk

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink

World

The Man Who Refused to Spy

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal.

Laura Secor New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Food

The Taste Makers

Where does Strawberry-Kiwi Snapple come from? Givaudan is part of a tiny, secretive industry that produces new flavors.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Nov 2009 40min Permalink

Best Article World

How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Sep 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article

Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through the Pandemic?

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

Elif Batuman New Yorker Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Back to School

Kim Kardashian West’s makeup artist launches a new line.

Rachel Syme New Yorker Aug 2020 20min Permalink

Food

A New Orleans Chef Navigates Disaster

Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The pandemic plays by different rules.

Helen Rosner New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink

Shelter and the Storm

The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.

Katherine Boo New Yorker Nov 2005 20min Permalink

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