Elizabeth Kolbert on the effects of global warming on butterflies, other insects, and plant species around the world.
Best New Yorker Articles of 2006
Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2006 issues.
47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: Elizabeth Kolbert (2)
Most featured section: Q. & A. (website)
Featured Picks
Why are the courts leaning on journalists?
Tad Friend talks with Ben Greeman about police car chases in Los Angeles and what they mean to the city.
The life and death of Alan Turing.
Steve Coll talks with Amy Davidson about the tensions between India and Pakistan, the role of jihadis, and the nuclear black market.
Writing in 2006, Jane Mayer investigates how an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay was thwarted.
Keith Gessen on the Soviet writer’s life and work.
What happened at Haymarket.
Fiction by Louise Erdrich: “The boy stood, frail and skinny, in the snow with a sad look on his face and a gun in his hand.”
Jon Lee Anderson talks with Amy Davidson about President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, of Liberia, her country’s civil war, and his time as a boy there.
John Lahr’s 2006 profile of Sean Penn. “He is warm but no hail-fellow, polite but without that come-hither thing. ‘You see me from ten feet away, everyone thinks I’m gonna bite or something,’ Penn says.”
Is it too late for the Administration to correct its course in Iraq?
Peter J. Boyer discusses the controversy and the changing face of religion in America.
Werner Herzog’s quest.
DVD NOTES about Orson Welles’s “Mr. Arkadin.”
After John Worley, a Massachusetts psychotherapist, received the first e-mail, he replied, “I can help and I am interested.”
Malcolm Gladwell discusses Cesar Millan, the host of the National Geographic TV show “Dog Whisperer.” and what canine behavior tells us about human …
Thomas Mallon discusses a biography of Harper Lee and her process in writing “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Fiction by Alice Munro: “None of the people she worked with knew what had happened. Or, if they did, they didn’t let on. . . . Also, the job they had found for her was in a town a good distance away from where she used to live.”
Italo Calvino’s short story, set in Italy during the Second World War, about fighters imprisoned in a hotel by Nazi forces.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about mobsters, terrorists, and port security at New York Harbor. Global Terminal, in Bayonne, New Jersey, has one clear advantage …
From 2006: James Surowiecki writes about the gap between the professed ideals of soccer’s governing body and the corruption-riddled reality.
Did the C.I.A. stop an F.B.I. detective from preventing 9/11?
Fiction, from 2006: They were nine years old then, when secrets became deception.
Hendrik Hertzberg on what the President calls his opposition party.
What drugs taught Walter Benjamin.
David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.
Dana Goodyear on the isolated education offered at Deep Springs College.
For the new theorists of jihad, Al Qaeda is just the beginning.
David Remnick on the former President, the work of the Clinton Foundation, and Clinton's efforts to elect Hillary.
I’d like to buy her some toffee
The reign of Helen Mirren.
Stephen Frears’s “The Queen.”
What if you built a machine to predict hit movies?
Adam Gopnik on why the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin spent so long preparing to write his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species.”
The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Alice Quinn, talks with these two longtime contributors about how they discovered their vocation, the impact of the …
The Armenian genocide and the politics of silence.
The art of Olafur Eliasson.
Short story about a woman taking her mother, who is ill with cancer, to an alternative treatment center in Frankfurt, Germany… They were going to boil …
Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
SHOUTS & MURMURS about a fictional memo regarding the Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy “Borat.” The writer suggests various ways to …
Acknowledging that there is a difference between being naive and being innocent, I will say that I was entirely naive back then.
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