A REPORTER AT LARGE
A Very Rare Book
The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
by Nicholas Schmidle
A Very Rare Book
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The Interview
DEPT. OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Interview
Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?
by Douglas Starr
Mozzarella Story
OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS
Mozzarella Story
A cheese ritual.
by Calvin Trillin
New Old Car
REPO DEPT.
New Old Car
by Nick Paumgarten
Thanksgiving in Mongolia
PERSONAL HISTORY
Thanksgiving in Mongolia
Adventure and heartbreak at the edge of the earth.
by Ariel Levy
Anti-semite and Jew
LETTER FROM BUDAPEST
ANTI-SEMITE AND JEW
The double life of a Hungarian politician.
by Anne Applebaum
Bread and Women
PERSONAL HISTORY
Bread and Women
Two muses, one loaf.
by Adam Gopnik
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PROFILES
Post-Modena
Italy’s food is bound by tradition. Its most famous chef isn’t.
by Jane Kramer
Home Movies
PROFILES
Home Movies
Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur.
by Margaret Talbot
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REFLECTIONS
Now We Are Five
A big family, at the beach.
by David Sedaris
Private Eyes
LETTER FROM HAVANA
Private Eyes
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
by Jon Lee Anderson
Bonus pick:
PROFILES
Two-hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, is now making big money at Square—and is out to prove that he’s more than a lucky man.
by D.T. Max
Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009
The New Yorkerest project is here to help you get a head start on your New Year’s resolution to eliminate that bedside stack of New Yorker magazines. Think of all the things you could do with the extra space on your bedside table.
It’s no easy task to narrow an already-crowded roster of amazing New Yorker articles from this year. Alas, a top-47 list would prove unwieldy, so without further ado here are my ten favorite pieces from 2009 (in publication order) Continue reading Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009