Best New Yorker Articles of 2000

ANNALS OF CRIME about the murder of Sophie du Plantier, in West Cork, Ireland, and Ian Bailey, an immigrant worker and part-time writer, from England who …

Joe Klein on the 2000 primary campaign of John McCain, who emerged as the most emotional and compelling candidate in the Republican field.

PROFILE of Moctar Teyeb, a former Mauritanian slave now living in the Bronx... he was born, in 1959, abd—a slave. More specifically, as he grew up, it …

Nicholas Lemann on the incredible rise of George W. Bush, an ordinary guy from Texas, in this Profile from 2000.

For fifty years, the comedian played the perfect putz, James Kaplan writes. His act was chaotic—and so was his life in show biz.

Philip Gourevitch on Andy Rosenzweig, a New York City cop who decided to investigate a long-ago double murder.

How Mike Nichols re-created comedy and himself.

A high-school romance and its end: a short story by T. C. Boyle.

David Owen’s 2000 Profile of George Meyer, whose comedic sensibility has thoroughly shaped the “The Simpsons” since its première, in 1989.

Michael Specter’s Profile of the eccentric and prolific shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.

Mark Singer’s 2000 profile of Martin Scorsese. “What drives a Scorsese tale is his talent for weaving variegated optical and aural and emotional textures. Underlying these dazzling gifts is his compulsion to provoke discomfort in himself and his audience.”

PROFILE of software billionaire Michael Saylor, 35... He is C.E.O. of a software company called MicroStrategy, which lost six billion dollars in a single …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Monsanto and the environmental movement's opposition to genetically-altered crops... Tells about Greenpeace's efforts to…

From 2000: “The people who will be coming tonight and tomorrow night to Les Halles, a restaurant on Park Avenue South where I work as the chef, aren’t like the people who come during the week,” Anthony Bourdain writes.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s 2000 piece about a young single mother’s relationship with a drug dealer in the Bronx.

David Remnick on the novelist's streamlined life and turbulent work.

Cindy Sherman’s gentle personality makes her disturbing photographs all the more mysterious and unforgettable, Calvin Tomkins writes.

Signed comment about Seymour Hersh’s Annals of War in the current issue... [T]he Persian Gulf War, in which, a decade ago, the United States and its …

PROFILE of pop technology author George Gilder, 60... To say that George Gilder is an optimist is to realize what a dowdy, cautious word “optimist” …

Bill Buford spends time with the singer, whose songs aren’t rock and roll, or blues, or country, but are primarily about love and loss.

David Schickler’s short story about an English teacher who becomes involved with a clever and charismatic high-school student.

PROFILE of singer Johnny Mathis, 64... I was startled by [his] voice’s ambiguous, piercing yet airy tone; it sounded almost synthetic in its precision, …

Tracy Kidder on the doctor Paul Farmer and his Haitian medical complex, Zanmi Lasante—Creole for Partners in Health, which treats cases of tuberculosis and AIDS among the poor in Haiti.

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Hitler’s extended family... Mentions Hitler's time at the Berghof, and discusses Patrick Hitler, a nephew, and Paula …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about library storage of newspapers, microfilm & writer’s American Newspaper Repository... Writer tells about a complaint voiced by …

The Potter story is a fairy tale, plus a bildungsroman, plus a murder mystery, plus a cosmic war of good and evil, Joan Acocella wrote.

Short story about a long, harrowing flight from Los Angeles to Denver, en route to New York... When Engine 3 experiences a “glitch,” Ellen turns to …

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM about ABC News's president, David Westin... Mentions a scandal involving an interview Clinton gave ABC which was conducted by …

PROFILE of pro golfer Tiger Woods, 24... In a sport in which good players seldom peak before their thirties, and often remain competitive at the highest …

Calvin Tomkins on John McEnroe, the four-time U.S. Open champion known for his tennis genius and bad behavior on the court.

Daphne Merkin asks: how Jewish do American Jews want to be?

PROFILE of fashion designer Helmut Lang, 43... Writer tells about trying on Lang's clothing in Camouflage, a store in Chelsea... Tells about the …

Elizabeth Kolbert’s 2000 Profile of Regis Philbin, America’s beloved host of the game-show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”

PROFILE of writer and cellist Mark Salzman, 40... Tells about his new short novel, "Lying Awake", which describes the travails of a nun whose tumor is …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon, and the damage done by him and others while studying the Yanomami tribes of the upper Orinoco…

A REPORTER AT LARGE about President Clinton’s administration...

ANNALS OF LAW about women judges and executions in Texas. . . Since 1976, Texas has executed two hundred and thirty-two people, which is more than a third …

The day my class was to go to the circus,

Short story about a disastrous attempt to renovate a townhouse.,..Housebound after an accident at one fairly tony New York health club, the narrator seeks …

How Jean-Luc Godard disappeared from the headlines and into the movies.

The Boston inventor Bob Rines travels to Scotland to find the most famous—and most elusive—aquatic beast in the world.

Hilton Als on June and Jennifer Gibbons, the British twins who retreated into their own world, with its own language—and then went on an arson spree.

Signed comment about the ongoing legal battle over the Presidential election. . . Two realities loomed like beasts in the mist: that George W. Bush will …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about a father's fight with Walter Reed hospital personnel over the circumstances of his daughter Katie's death. . . Describes…

Junot Díaz’s story about Oscar de León, a Dominican boy nicknamed Oscar Wao for his resemblance to Oscar Wilde, told by his college roommate.