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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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9 picks · 1995–2003

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Alone In the Dark
letter from korea ·

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

The Optimist
profiles ·

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

Can You Forgive Him?
a reporter at large ·

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

Mr. Brown
profiles ·

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

Debt and the Salesman
profiles ·

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 ·

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 ·

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 ·

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 ·

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?