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Writers

Nathan Heller

In a Divided Country, Communal Living Redefines Togetherness

The traditional home is under renovation. Can people find meaning in groups?

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jun 2021 35min Permalink

Politics Health

A Window Onto an American Nightmare

On homelessness in San Francisco.

Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2020 35min Permalink

Health

Tell Us What You Need

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

The Philosopher Redefining Equality

Elizabeth Anderson thinks we’ve misunderstood the basis of a free and fair society.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink

Best Article History

Tribes

Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Aug 2018 20min Permalink

Tech

Estonia, the Digital Republic

Tech takes over the post-Soviet nation.

Nathan Heller The New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink

The New Activism of Campus Life

On trigger warnings, allyship, intersectionality, and what’s really eating Oberlin.

Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2016 35min Permalink

Crime

A College Romance That Led to Murder

Thirty years ago, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering fell in love as freshman at the University of Virginia. It was the same year Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered. Each says the other committed the crime.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Nov 2015 45min Permalink

Tech

Laptop U

The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink

Arts

Semi-Charmed Life

Parsing the lives of middle-class twentysomethings.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Jan 2013 20min Permalink

Best Article

The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan

The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.

Nathan Heller The New Republic Sep 2012 25min Permalink

Why Are So Many Americans Single?

On living alone, which more people are doing today than ever before.

Nathan Heller New Yorker Apr 2012 15min Permalink