The United Nations’ doomed mission to Iraq.
Best New Yorker Articles of 2008
Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2008 issues.
47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: Lauren Collins (3)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
Man moves into his garage attic.
Short story about two neighbors in a California canyon, a thirteen-year-old boy, Dill, who lives with his mother, and a Japanese man, Sanjuro, who lives …
Old Masters, pornography, and the work of John Currin.
A comedian’s war on crooked politics.
How Stephen Schwarzman became private equity’s designated villain.
An excessive carbon footprint is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing a scarlet letter, Michael Specter wrote, in 2008.
Margaret Talbot on what tougher detention policies mean for the children of undocumented immigrants, from the March 3, 2008, issue of the magazine.
Before the 2008 elections, Lauren Collins profiled Michelle Obama, the wife of Barack Obama and future First Lady.
What does a recently found photo album reveal?
Short story, written in the first person, about a female graduate student who becomes involved with two older men who are interested in the science of time…
Lynda Resnick’s eye for a product.
John Colapinto on a dispute over a colonial-era shipwreck that may hold the largest treasure ever recovered from the sea.
Israel, Palestine, and a tenure battle at Barnard.
Nick Paumgarten’s 2008 story about a Nicholas White, who got stuck on an elevator, and the history of elevators and city life.
The national scramble to learn a new language before the Olympics.
Hollywood arrives on Skid Row.
Pascal Dangin’s virtual reality.
How the Mississippi lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco overstepped.
Have the Republicans run out of ideas?
An Al Qaeda mastermind questions terrorism.
Haruki Murakami on learning how to go the distance as a writer and a runner.
The influence of Hugo Chávez.
A multibillionaire’s relentless quest for global influence.
A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions.
How Chicago shaped Obama.
How medical marijuana is transforming the pot industry.
How China’s greatest musician will win the Beijing Games.
Comment about rising gas prices and John McCain’s changing campaign strategy. Late last month, Sen. John McCain went up with a new TV ad, “Pump,” …
Short story by Tobias Wolff about a Columbia College junior and his doubts about himself and his Russian girlfriend as they lie in bed together.
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Ian Parker’s profile of Alec Baldwin: “Relentlessly self-critical, Baldwin says, ‘I don’t think I really have a talent for movie acting.’ ”
How the Chinese experienced the Olympics.
Short story about a Bosnian man’s encounter with a famous American novelist in Sarajevo. The American Ambassador’s house in Sarajevo was a huge, ugly …
A decorated marine’s war within.
Grappling with the twentieth century.
The many lives of Arianna Huffington.
LIFE AND LETTERS in which the author describes an encounter following the loss and recovery of his hat. One day, while wintering in the Southwest, the …
SHOUTS AND MURMURS about undecided voters. As we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign, the focus shifts to the undecided voters. I look …
CliffyB and the world of the video game.
The relentless optimism of Thomas Friedman.
How the economic crisis can help Obama redefine the Democrats.
Bob Kramer and the secret lives of knives.
Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis.
Keeping hip-hop safe from crime.
After a daughter dies, a new life with her children.
Free speech from beyond the grave