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Tad Friend

Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He is the author of the memoir “ In the Early Times: A Life Reframed .”

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9 picks · 1998–2026

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Second-Act Twist
profiles ·

Andrew Stanton, the director of “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E,” faces the complications of live action.

Jumpers
letter from california ·

Every two weeks, on average, someone jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. What makes it such a magnet for the suicidal?