Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995 and a staff writer since 1997.

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Alone In the Dark

letter from korea · September 8, 2003

Kim Jong Il plays a canny game with South Korea and the U.S.

The Optimist

profiles · March 3, 2003

Kofi Annan’s U.N. has never been more important and more imperilled.

Can You Forgive Him?

a reporter at large · September 2, 2002

Philip Gourevitch on corruption-plagued Providence Mayor Vincent A. (Buddy) Cianci, Jr.

Mr. Brown

profiles · July 29, 2002

Philip Gourevitch writes about going on the road with James Brown.

Debt and the Salesman

profiles · July 30, 2001

PROFILE of entrepreneur Bill Bartmann... He appeared on Forbes’s 1997 annual ranking of the richest Americans, tied with his wife... Their combined …

A Cold Case

annals of crime · February 14, 2000

Philip Gourevitch on Andy Rosenzweig, a New York City cop who decided to investigate a long-ago double murder.

The Memory Thief

a reporter at large · June 14, 1999

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Binjamin Wilkomirski’s book, “Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood”, which purported to be a factual account of the …

The Genocide Fax

annals of diplomacy · May 11, 1998

Philip Gourevitch’s 1998 report on the fax sent from Rwanda to U.N. headquarters, warning of impending genocide.

After the Genocide

letter from rwanda · December 18, 1995

Philip Gourevtich on the aftermath of the Hutu power’s months-long genocide against the Tutsi minority, in Rwanda, in 1994. When a people murders up to a million fellow-countrymen, what does it mean to survive?