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Writers

Ian Parker

Crime Food

The Great Organic-Food Fraud

There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

Ian Parker New Yorker Nov 2021 Permalink

Tech

The Shape of Things To Come

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.

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Jony Ive left Apple yesterday.

Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2015 Permalink

A Suspense Novelist's Trail of Deceptions

Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window. His life contains even stranger twists.

Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2018 50min Permalink

Politics Media

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

Ian Parker New Yorker Aug 2018 50min Permalink

Movies & TV

Ken Burns's American Canon

A profile of the documentary filmmaker.

Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2017 30min Permalink

What Makes a Parent?

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

Ian Parker New Yorker May 2017 45min Permalink

Food Media

Pete Wells Has His Knives Out

How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.

Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink

Arts

Inheritance

On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.

Ian Parker New Yorker May 2014 50min Permalink

Science

Swingers

Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they?

Ian Parker The New Yorker Jul 2007 45min Permalink

Science

The Big Sleep

On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.

Ian Parker New Yorker Dec 2013 45min Permalink

The Story of a Suicide

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.

Ian Parker New Yorker Jan 2012 50min Permalink

Best Article History Tech

Absolute PowerPoint

The definitive story of a ubiquitous software. PowerPoint’s origins, its evolution, and its mind-boggling impact on corporate culture.

Ian Parker New Yorker May 2001 20min Permalink

Politics

Why Me?

A profile of the perpetually disappointed Alec Baldwin.

Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2008 35min Permalink

He Knew He Was Right

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Ian Parker New Yorker Oct 2006 40min Permalink