Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Tags

The New Yorker

Media

A Second Chance

On learning persuasion.

Janet Malcolm The New York Review of Books Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Arts

The Double Life of Peter Arno

On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.

Ben Schwartz Vanity Fair Apr 2016 25min Permalink

Science

The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

Judith Thurman New Yorker Aug 2018 25min 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

Travel

Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?

It won’t be easy.

William Finnegan New Yorker Jul 2018 25min 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

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

Sports

The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing

Flying straight from the future.

Ian Frazier New Yorker Jan 2018 25min 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

Movies & TV

Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories

Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.

Ronan Farrow New Yorker Oct 2017 15min Permalink

Politics

Andy Borowitz Is Not Trying to Trick You

A profile of the polarizing New Yorker columnist.

Rob Harvilla The Ringer Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Last Amazon

On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.

Jill Lepore The New Yorker Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Arts

The Eternal Paternal

On Bill Cosby’s complicated family life.

Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker Sep 2014 25min Permalink

Media

The Patron and the Panhandler

Fifty years after Joseph Mitchell published “Joe Gould’s Secret” in The New Yorker, one last question about Gould—the identity of his anonymous benefactor—is answered.

Joshua Prager Vanity Fair Feb 2014 15min Permalink

Best Article Arts Media

The Letter

How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.

Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.

Elon Green The Awl Jul 2013 15min Permalink

Smugged by Reality

On New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.

James Wolcott The New Republic Feb 2007 15min Permalink

Arts

The Last Gentleman

On New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow’s descent into madness.

Ariel Levy New York Mar 2007 25min Permalink

Best Article

The Buzz Factory

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

Joseph Nocera, Peter Elkind Fortune Jul 1998 25min Permalink

An Interview with David Remnick

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”

Robert Birnbaum The Morning News Jun 2010 Permalink

Making It Look Easy at the New Yorker

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written a new Obama biography expected to be a best-seller. His frugal streak has kept his staff intact. And yet, after a dozen years, he’s still the new guy at Condé Nast.

Stephanie Clifford New York Times Apr 2010 Permalink