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Publications

The New Yorker

Health

What the Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Christmas Miracle"

A hallucinatory, grotesque family Christmas.

Rebecca Curtis The New Yorker Dec 2013 35min Permalink

Crime

In Too Deep

Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?

Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Health

Immune Disorder

At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.

James Somers The New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Grief"

Complex grieving rituals in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

Scholastique Mukasonga The New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink

History Politics

How Do We Change America?

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Sports

Stephon Marbury Has His Own Story to Tell

A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.

Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"

A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.

Kate Folk The New Yorker Mar 2020 25min

Health

Living Proof

Is the oldest person who ever lived a fraud?

Lauren Collins The New Yorker Feb 2020 35min Permalink

Business

The Woman Shaking Up The Diamond Industry

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Ed Caesar The New Yorker Jan 2020 40min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"

Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.

Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink

World

Indefensible

The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.

Ben Taub The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink

History

Tabula Rasa

On the old-man project.

John McPhee The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"

Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.

Camille Bordas The New Yorker Dec 2019 30min Permalink

History

My Terezín Diary

On what is recorded and what is left out.

Zuzana Justman The New Yorker Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

Devil's Advocate

On lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

Connie Bruck The New Yorker Jul 2019 30min Permalink

Guantánamo's Darkest Secret

The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.

Ben Taub The New Yorker Apr 2019 50min Permalink

Tech

Stop, Thief

Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?

Charles Duhigg The New Yorker Oct 2018 30min Permalink

A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

Rebecca Mead The New Yorker Aug 2018 20min Permalink

Science

Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.

Alan Burdick The New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink

Trump's Miss Universe Gambit

The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.

Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker Feb 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

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Tolentino on the Longform Podcast

Jia Tolentino The New Yorker Feb 2018 20min Permalink

What Does It Mean to Die?

A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.

Rachel Aviv The New Yorker Jan 2018 35min Permalink

How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse

Why are we still involved?

Nicolas Niarchos The New Yorker Jan 2018 20min Permalink

Tech

Estonia, the Digital Republic

Tech takes over the post-Soviet nation.

Nathan Heller The New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink

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