Mountaineering stories(Translated, from the Italian, by Alessandra Bastagli.)
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
Featured Picks
Can the students who became a symbol of failed reform be rescued?
Raffi Khatchadourian on Adam Gadahn, a senior Al Qaeda operative—and the first American to be charged with treason in over fifty years.
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.”
Two young Christians and an unwanted pregnancy.
Larissa MacFarquhar meets the couple who helped persuade philosophers to care about neuroscience.
A Pacific odyssey.
Hunting venomous species in the basements of Los Angeles.
Can the United States be made safe from nuclear terrorism?
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.
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Jane Kramer on Benedict XVI, Catholicism, and Islam.
Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
The battle for France.
Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
Larissa MacFarquhar on Barack Obama’s first Presidential campaign, his origins, and his books “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.”
The business world’s high roller is betting everything on biofuels.
Can Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa keep control of L.A.’s battling factions?
Adam Gopnik investigates what President Abraham Lincoln actually said and what was said about him, and explores why different versions of quotations exist.
The Republican implosion.
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 …
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 …
Can brain scans uncover lies?
Man watches “Open Range” to understand a breakup
The making of Mort Zuckerman.
The next generation of bionic prostheses.
The losing war on junk e-mail.
Jane Mayer on the C.I.A.’s secret detention, interrogation, and possible torture of terrorism suspects at “black sites” during the Bush Administration.
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 …
The life of a wily Pakistani electrician
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.
How should we withdraw from Iraq?
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.
Argentine lawyer becomes a gaucho
Bobby Egan’s barbecue diplomacy.
The disputed region gears up to declare independence.
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.
John Burnside’s short story about a molasses deliveryman who picks up a desperate hitchhiker one cold winter night.
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.
Canada’s synthetic-fuels boom.
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…
Ryan Lizza on the campaign strategies that helped Barack Obama catch up to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential primary race.
Nurse’s aid at a V.A. hospital
Can the trees of the Great Smoky Mountains be saved?
The downfall of the Getty curator Marion True.
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.)