Writing in 1994, John Seabrook profiles Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1994
Explore 49 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1994 issues.
49 picks · 49 issues · Top author: John Seabrook (3)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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West is trying to resurrect the role of the activist philosopher without completely shaking up the academy, Jervis Anderson wrote, in 1994.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about victims of a blindness apparently incurred during the Cambodian Holocaust as a psychological disfigurement. Writer tells about …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's experience on a jury for the trial of Martin Kaplan, 23, a petty thief who was convicted in a subway mugging. …
Comment about President Clinton's health care plan and about his State of the Union Address. Even conservatives have acknowledged that there has to be …
Ken Auletta on the anchor whose versatility and charisma made her a celebrity—and ignited a bidding war.
After the attack on the ice skater Nancy Kerrigan, Susan Orlean reported on the knee-clubbing scandal that preceded the 1994 Winter Olympics and implicated Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant.
PROFILE of Stephen Spender. Writer's first meeting with Spender was in 1960, when he was president, chief executive, and general mastermind of the …
Comment about a debate over whether sex criminals should be permitted to undergo castration. The argument began in 1992, when Steve Allen Butler, a …
David Remnick’s 1994 Profile of the author of “Invisible Man.”
Susan Orlean’s profile of Sue Mengers, who was one of the most formidable agents in Hollywood.
Back in nineteen-forties Brooklyn, Alec Wilkinson writes, the media personality Larry King and the author Herb Cohen found fame in a junior-high-school stunt.
Comment about Shaw v. Reno, a Supreme Court case about the 12th congressional district of North Carolina and a related trial. A great national experiment …
Comment about regulating cigarettes & smoking. Last month Dr. David A. Kessler, the commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration, told Congress he …
Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering thirty-three boys.
To the many people in Northern Ireland living in fear, Gerry Adams is just another man who won't let an old war die.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit by Moi, a Huaorani Indian from the Ecuadorian Amazon, to Washington, D.C., to present the case of his tribe to the U.S. …
Adam Gopnik on Pierre Chareau’s modernist Glass House, in nineteen-thirties Paris—and the dreams that still haunt it.
Joyce Johnson on Dr. Park Dietz, the forensic psychologist who has testified in notorious homicide cases, including the prosecution of John Hinckley, Jr., Betty Broderick, Jeffrey Dahmer, Joel Rifkin, and Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber.
From 1994: In making a sexual-harassment charge against the President, Jones herself will be subjected to intense scrutiny.
From Wellesley and Yale to the White House and health-care reform.
Writing in 1994, John Seabrook describes the novel experience of being insulted by a stranger on the Internet.
Lucinda Franks on Katherine Ann Power, the antiwar radical who left her life and family in Oregon to serve time for her role in an action that killed a Boston cop in 1970.
Her sexual-harassment claims against President Clinton spawned a lurid scandal, Sidney Blumenthal writes. But for a disgruntled network of televangelists and anti-abortionists, she is more than a cause—she is an opportunity.
Poor Tony Krause is a homeless transvestite drug addict in twenty-first-century Massachusetts. Lengthy footnotes tell how he snatched a woman's …
Adam Gopnik on how the search for what it all means became the search for what the coverage of it all means.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about female-to-male (F.T.M.) transsexuals. Two people in 100,000 are diagnosed as high-intensity transsexuals, requiring surgery. …
Jeffrey Toobin writes about the legal strategies in the O. J. Simpson trial.
The author examines his family and its losses, six years after his son was convicted of murder.
They concluded that my attitude was from being by myself so much, so Karen arranged to bring the Indian to the house for a visit. It so happens that I know…
Short story about a woman photographer’s time on Nantucket while thinking about headache cures, natural remedies, Princess Diana, Coco Chanel, Ted …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about cocaine trafficking in east Texas, especially in the town and county of San Augustine; a drug bust there called Operation White …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina, and Shannon Faulkner, a woman who was recently the first female …
Today was the happiest day of my life so far, even though it didn't include actual sex or the World Series. I live with my parents--to save …
The former model Toukie Smith has a big voice, a big smile, and an unbridled enthusiasm for things quintessentially herself, Hilton Als writes—all of which she has poured into her restaurant venture.
After the eye passed over, the Concordia Yawl Bliss was picked up and tossed sideways. Eliot was catapulted from the cockpit and landed chin first on the …
John Seabrook on the cultural influence of MTV and its music videos, which over time have moved from featuring musicians such as Culture Club and Madonna to Kurt Cobain and Snoop Doggy Dogg.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Norton Townshend Dodge's collection of unofficial Soviet Russian art. Dodge was born in Oklahoma City in 1927, and first went…
Fiction, from 1994: “The idea of creating a zombie for my own purposes came to me in a brainstorm five years ago.”
ANNALS OF LAW about jury trials, peremptory challenges, and two new books on juries; Jeffrey Abramson's "We, the Jury", and Stephen J. Adler's "The Jury.O …
A Profile of the actress and It Girl Chloe Sevigny in 1994, written by Jay McInerney, when she was filming “Kids” and a muse for fashion designers.
Joanna declared that she was going to marry Damian when she was five years old. Twenty years later, when he was in his sixties, Damian appeared at the home…
Daniel Diamond and his wife Christy Kite knew that the house was all wrong for them. An ivy-covered Norman country manor with an eccentric roofline, a fat,…
Gore has spent his life preparing for the Presidency, only to find himself now cast as the Walter Mondale of the nineties, Peter J. Boyer writes. If it’s too late to save this Administration, is there still time to save his party and himself?
Lawrence Weschler’s 1994 Profile of the director Roman Polanski at work on his film “Death and the Maiden,” a film whose themes eerily resonate with Polanski’s own story.
Signed Comment about the aftermath of the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. Three years ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee with its televised …
Lady Maria St. Just’s talent for outrageous mythmaking charmed Tennessee Williams. John Lahr looks at their friendship.
The beginning and end of everything is a marriage. Sheila Bijlani was always glamorous. After college, she became a hostess with Air France. Everyone …