George Packer on the city’s immigrant suburbs, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and France’s problems with Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamist radicalism.
Best New Yorker Our Far Flung Correspondents
Correspondence features dispatches from writers reporting from locations around the world and across America, bringing distant stories to New Yorker readers.
10 picks · 1960–2015
Top authors: Emily Hahn (1), John Updike (1), Andrea Lee (1)
An Alaskan tribe’s monument found its way to John Barrymore’s Beverly Hills estate. Paige Williams on an artifact’s journey.
Bob Kramer and the secret lives of knives.
Ian Frazier treks through the American South in search of feral swine, and explores the wild hog’s long history.
Burkhard Bilger writes about Joe Nickell, who is perhaps the country’s foremost paranormal investigator and debunker of false phenomena.
Susan Orlean on the campaign to release Keiko, the orca whale that starred in “Free Willy,” into the wild.
Anthony Lane explores the history and future of Lego, visits a Lego lab in Billund Sweden—and visits with Norman Mailer, who has built a giant Lego city in his living room.
The author returns to her Aunt Lucy’s house in Ahoskie, North Carolina, in search of a patchwork quilt.
John Updike writes about Ted Williams’s last game with the Boston Red Sox.
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a visit to Brasilia, brand-new capital of Brazil, which will officially become the seat of government next month, …