PERSONAL HISTORY
Bread and Women
Two muses, one loaf.
by Adam Gopnik
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PROFILES
Post-Modena
Italy’s food is bound by tradition. Its most famous chef isn’t.
by Jane Kramer
Bread and Women
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Home Movies
PROFILES
Home Movies
Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur.
by Margaret Talbot
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REFLECTIONS
Now We Are Five
A big family, at the beach.
by David Sedaris
Private Eyes
LETTER FROM HAVANA
Private Eyes
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
by Jon Lee Anderson
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PROFILES
Two-hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, is now making big money at Square—and is out to prove that he’s more than a lucky man.
by D.T. Max
Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009
The New Yorkerest project is here to help you get a head start on your New Year’s resolution to eliminate that bedside stack of New Yorker magazines. Think of all the things you could do with the extra space on your bedside table.
It’s no easy task to narrow an already-crowded roster of amazing New Yorker articles from this year. Alas, a top-47 list would prove unwieldy, so without further ado here are my ten favorite pieces from 2009 (in publication order) Continue reading Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009
Hearth Surgery: A stove to transform the developing world.
Annals of Innovation
Hearth Surgery
A stove to transform the developing world.
by Burkhard Bilger
Testing, Testing: The complex battle to cut health-care costs.
Testing, Testing
The complex battle to cut health-care costs.
by Atul Gawande
This was a wonderful issue overall and if you have the time, I also recommend reading The Celebrity Defense: Sex, justice, and Roman Polanski. by Jeffrey Toobin, The Most Failed State: Somalia’s new President. by Jon Lee Anderson, and “All That†by David Foster Wallace.
Portraits of Power: Leaders of the world.
Portraits of Power
Leaders of the world.
by Platon
Politics of Death: From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.
The Politics of Death
From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.
by Jill Lepore
The Taste Makers: Inside the labs that flavor your food.
Annals of Science
The Taste Makers
Inside the labs that flavor your food.
by Raffi Khatchadourian
If you have some extra time, Pilgrim’s Progress: The challenges of Thanksgiving abroad. by Jane Kramer and Reading into recipes. by Adam Gopnik are both wonderful pieces.
The Pharaoh: The man who controls Egyptology.
Letter from Cairo
The Pharaoh
The man who controls Egyptology.
by Ian Parker