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Best New Yorker Articles of 2012
Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2012 issues.
47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: Peter Hessler (2)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
An American reporter takes on the yakuza.
Egypt’s leading novelist surveys the Arab uprising.
Will the United States be able to negotiate with a man it has hunted for a decade?
The brainstorming myth.
Ian Parker on Tyler Clementi, the gay Rutgers student who committed suicide after discovering that his roommate, Dharun Ravi, was taping his sexual encounters.
How Dallas Wiens found a new face.
Are Putin and Prokhorov running for President against or with each other?
The rise and fall of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.
How Christian Marclay created the ultimate digital mosaic.
A group of grandmothers track down the stolen children of dissidents who were disappeared during Argentina’s Dirty War. Francisco Goldman tells their story.
Ian Parker profiles Armando Iannucci, the British screenwriter known for profane political comedies, including “Veep” and “The Thick of It.”
Christine Quinn and the last days of Bloomberg.
Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.
She’s wide and lumbering, but Jack Alcock still thinks her a nippy little thing...
The world of Alison Bechdel.
The discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars shakes southern India.
Nero, a mixture of fierce breeds in a line known locally as guard dogs, was valued for his strength, his formidable jaws, and his resonant bark...
Lara worked at the Raiffeisen Bank, and she got off work before Simon, but she liked to wait for him so that they could travel home together...
Jeffrey Toobin on how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, dramatically changing campaign-finance laws.
A story of love, revolution, and betrayal.
My wife wanted another baby. But I thought Philip was enough. A toddler is a lot...
Will the elections end the Egyptian revolution?
Shani Boianjiu’s short story about Israeli soldiers who encounter a trio of Palestinian protesters at a checkpoint.
The sleazebag shakes the wife’s hand, and it looks as if her hand kind of lingers in his. Then the sleazebag leaves...
Fiction by Tessa Hadley: a teen-ager in the ninteen-sixties impulsively goes joyriding with a group of boys.
A year ago, Sudan broke into two countries. Will that end its long civil war?
Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two.
A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation.
Can a sex symbol and cricket legend run Pakistan?
As Syria descends into civil war, can its rebel factions unite against the government?
A substitute teacher and his girlfriend reside as caretakers in a large, lakeside house for the winter, in this short story from 2012.
The challenge of creating a world-class restaurant—and turning a profit.
Jeffrey Toobin on the close Senate race in Massachusetts between the progressive Democrat and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren and the incumbent Republican senator, Scott Brown.
Trying times for Joe Girardi and the Yankees.
Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate.
After supermarkets, private equity, and politics, Ron Burkle makes a move on Hollywood.
Fiction, from 2012: “Note to future generations: Happiness possible. And happy so much better than opposite, i.e., sad.”
Bacteria make us sick. Do they also keep us alive?
Along with his fellow-marines, Lu Lobello killed innocent bystanders in a chaotic Baghdad firefight. Then he sought out the family he harmed. Dexter Filkins reports.
Fiction by David Gilbert: a self-conscious teen-ager faces snobbish parents and vicious frenemies at an exclusive beach club on Long Island.
As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform?
I’d never seen a white-faced bull before. It was castrated, and the way it looked at you out of the corner of its eyes was enough to make your hair stand…
Yotam Ottolenghi’s ideas are changing the way London eats.
Now all he can do is lie there thinking about things, high school, grade school, the boy in the room in Stratford, listening for the voice in the night. …
Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets.
Keith Gessen travels on the Nordic Odyssey, a cargo ship that, thanks to rising temperatures, can sail the Northeast Passage, from Russia to China.