
LETTER FROM BUDAPEST
Notes of Dissent
In Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics.
by Alex Ross
LETTER FROM BUDAPEST
Notes of Dissent
In Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics.
by Alex Ross
SKETCHBOOK
by Maira Kalman
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Schooled
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
by Dale Russakoff
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY
The End of Food
Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?
by Lizzie Widdicombe
DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE
A New Kind of Spy
How China obtains American technological secrets.
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
by Patrick Radden Keefe
LIFE AND LETTERS
The Poet’s Hand
Why do we still search for relics of the Bard?
by Adam Gopnik
LETTER FROM LAMPEDUSA
The Anchor
The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior.
by Mattathias Schwartz
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE
This is My Jail
Where gang members and their female guards set the rules.
by Jeffrey Toobin
THE WRITING LIFE
Elicitation
Who is there to help you but the person who is answering your questions?
by John McPhee
PERSONAL HISTORY
My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter
The strange life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
by Nicholas Thompson