Larissa MacFarquhar

Once a distant outpost of the British Empire, the islands have become a global crossroads. In the season of the coronavirus, the intimate communities may evolve yet again, Larissa MacFarquhar writes.

Many facilities are using nostalgic environments as a means of soothing the misery, panic, and rage their residents experience, Larissa MacFarquhar writes.

In family court, judges must decide whether the risks at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.

Formerly incarcerated undergrads started a group on campus to offer mentoring, support, and advocacy to other onetime inmates.

Larissa MacFarquhar on Barack Obama’s first Presidential campaign, his origins, and his books “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.”

Larissa MacFarquhar meets the couple who helped persuade philosophers to care about neuroscience.

Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2005 Profile of the author of “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” and other poems.

Larissa MacFarquhar profiles Edward Albee, the author of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and other plays.

Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2003 profile of Quentin Tarantino. “Tarantino knows the history of movie pleasure better than anybody, he knows what an audience will be expecting and when, and he uses this knowledge to trap and shock.”

Larissa MacFarquhar writes on Stanley Coren’s “The Pawprints of History,” which suggests that dogs have been scanted in the historical record.

Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2002 Profile of the critic and the writer Harold Bloom: “To him, what matters is the essence of personality, and all the rest is dross.”

PROFILE of Hollywood movie producer Brian Grazer... Grazer was born in 1951… His lifetime gross has passed four billion dollars and he ranks with Jerry …

Larissa MacFarquhar profiles the “loudmouth” literary scholar Stanley Fish, who is famous for his attacks on liberalism and his work on John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”

The Boston inventor Bob Rines travels to Scotland to find the most famous—and most elusive—aquatic beast in the world.

PROFILE of pop technology author George Gilder, 60... To say that George Gilder is an optimist is to realize what a dowdy, cautious word “optimist” …

PROFILE of software billionaire Michael Saylor, 35... He is C.E.O. of a software company called MicroStrategy, which lost six billion dollars in a single …