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Best New Yorker Articles of 2007

Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2007 issues.

47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: Raffi Khatchadourian (2)

Most featured section: A Reporter at Large

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Bear Meat
Primo Levi · Fiction · January 8

Mountaineering stories(Translated, from the Italian, by Alessandra Bastagli.)

Expectations
Katherine Boo · A Reporter at Large · January 15

Can the students who became a symbol of failed reform be rescued?

Azzam the American
Raffi Khatchadourian · A Reporter at Large · January 22

Raffi Khatchadourian on Adam Gadahn, a senior Al Qaeda operative—and the first American to be charged with treason in over fifty years.

Cell One
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Fiction · January 29

Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The first time our house was robbed, it was our neighbor Osita who climbed in through the dining-room window . . . . The second time our house was robbed, it was my brother.”

Good People
David Foster Wallace · Fiction · February 5

Two young Christians and an unwanted pregnancy.

Two Heads
Larissa MacFarquhar · Profiles · February 12

Larissa MacFarquhar meets the couple who helped persuade philosophers to care about neuroscience.

The Castaways
Mark Singer · A Reporter at Large · February 19

A Pacific odyssey.

Spider Woman
Burkhard Bilger · A Reporter at Large · March 5

Hunting venomous species in the basements of Los Angeles.

THE UNTHINKABLE
Steve Coll · A Reporter at Large · March 12

Can the United States be made safe from nuclear terrorism?

In the Now
John Colapinto · Profiles · March 19

Since Karl Lagerfeld took over Chanel, it has become one of the most profitable luxury brands in the world. John Colapinto explores Lagerfeld’s fashion empire.

Playdate
Kate Walbert · Fiction · March 26

Reporting, Profiles, daily news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.

The Pope And Islam
Jane Kramer · Letter from Europe · April 2

Jane Kramer on Benedict XVI, Catholicism, and Islam.

The Next Crusade
John Cassidy · Profiles · April 9

Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.

The Interpreter
John Colapinto · A Reporter at Large · April 16

Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?

Round One
Jane Kramer · Letter from Europe · April 23

The battle for France.

The Way We Age Now
Atul Gawande · Annals of Medicine · April 30

Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?

The Conciliator
Larissa MacFarquhar · Profiles · May 7

Larissa MacFarquhar on Barack Obama’s first Presidential campaign, his origins, and his books “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.”

Branson’s Luck
Michael Specter · Profiles · May 14

The business world’s high roller is betting everything on biofuels.

Fault Lines
Connie Bruck · Profiles · May 21

Can Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa keep control of L.A.’s battling factions?

Angels and Ages
Adam Gopnik · Annals of Biography · May 28

Adam Gopnik investigates what President Abraham Lincoln actually said and what was said about him, and explores why different versions of quotations exist.

Party Unfaithful
Jeffrey Goldberg · Letter from Washington · June 4

The Republican implosion.

Sweetheart Sorrow
David Hoon Kim · Début Fiction · June 11

Short story about a Danish student, living in Paris, whose Japanese lover locks herself in her room and kills herself. Fumiko had locked herself in her …

Five to Four
Jeffrey Toobin · Comment · June 25

Comment about the conservative shift of the Supreme Court. As George W. Bush staggers toward the end of his second term, he can point to one major project …

Duped
Margaret Talbot · A Reporter at Large · July 2

Can brain scans uncover lies?

If I Vanished
Stuart Dybek · Fiction · July 9

Man watches “Open Range” to understand a breakup

The Tycoon
Nick Paumgarten · Profiles · July 23

The making of Mort Zuckerman.

Muscle Memory
Ben McGrath · A Reporter at Large · July 30

The next generation of bionic prostheses.

Damn Spam
Michael Specter · Annals of Technology · August 6

The losing war on junk e-mail.

The Black Sites
Jane Mayer · A Reporter at Large · August 13

Jane Mayer on the C.I.A.’s secret detention, interrogation, and possible torture of terrorism suspects at “black sites” during the Bush Administration.

Swimming
T Cooper · Fiction · August 20

Short story about a man living in Cambodia after the death of his son. He was just there with us, alive, one minute, and then the next minute, he was …

Nawabdin Electrician
Daniyal Mueenuddin · Fiction · August 27

The life of a wily Pakistani electrician

Luda and Milena
Lara Vapnyar · Fiction · September 3

Lara Vapnyar’s short story about two Russian women, recently arrived in the States, competing for the affection of a widower in their English class.

Planning for Defeat
George Packer · A Reporter at Large · September 17

How should we withdraw from Iraq?

Mondo Donatella
Lauren Collins · Profiles · September 24

Lauren Collins’s Profile of Donatella Versace, the larger-than-life fashion designer who took over the Versace brand after the murder of her brother Gianni.

The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño · Fiction · October 1

Argentine lawyer becomes a gaucho

Our Man in Pyongyang
Rebecca Mead · A Reporter at Large · October 8

Bobby Egan’s barbecue diplomacy.

The Countdown
William Finnegan · Letter from Kosovo · October 15

The disputed region gears up to declare independence.

Stealing Life
Margaret Talbot · Profiles · October 22

Margaret Talbot’s 2007 profile of the show’s creator, David Simon, with a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of “The Wire” ’s fifth season.

The Cold Outside
John Burnside · Fiction · October 29

John Burnside’s short story about a molasses deliveryman who picks up a desperate hitchhiker one cold winter night.

Neptune’s Navy
Raffi Khatchadourian · A Reporter at Large · November 5

Raffi Khatchadourian on Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a vigilante organization he founded to protect the world’s marine life from the destructive habits and the voracious appetites of humankind.

Unconventional Crude
Elizabeth Kolbert · A Reporter at Large · November 12

Canada’s synthetic-fuels boom.

Or Else
Antonya Nelson · Fiction · November 19

Short story about a thirty-nine-year-old man taking his girlfriend to a house in Telluride for the weekend. “My family owns a house in Telluride,” was…

The Relaunch
Ryan Lizza · The Political Scene · November 26

Ryan Lizza on the campaign strategies that helped Barack Obama catch up to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential primary race.

The Visitor
Marisa Silver · Fiction · December 3

Nurse’s aid at a V.A. hospital

A Death in the Forest
Richard Preston · Letter from North Carolina · December 10

Can the trees of the Great Smoky Mountains be saved?

Treasure Hunt
Hugh Eakin · A Reporter at Large · December 17

The downfall of the Getty curator Marion True.

Beginners
Raymond Carver · Fiction · December 24

Drinking gin and talking about love (This is a draft of Carver’s story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” without Gordon Lish’s edits.)

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