I had not always been a daylight ghost, a layabout, a housewife, a person foiled by the challenge of getting dressed and someone who considered eating less…
Best New Yorker Articles of 2013
Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2013 issues.
47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: David Owen (2)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
Cecilia caught a single glimpse of the two women and looked away and didn’t look again. Whoever was on afternoon duty would surely ask them what they …
Can a Norwegian firm solve the problems of Times Square?
Paige Williams on a Florida man’s curious trade in dinosaur fossils from Mongolia.
A Profile of the TV doctor and Columbia University cardiologist Dr. Oz, who rose to fame on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show, and, after the article was published, entered politics as a Republican supporter of Donald Trump. Michael Specter reports.
Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a mass shooter with a tragic past.
If the Assad regime falls, can Hezbollah survive?
The rise of Purell.
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2013 Profile of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Margaret Talbot writes about transgender youths and about Skylar, a teen-age boy who was born a girl, and had surgery at sixteen in order to transition.
Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest—and most controversial—billionaire.
Marjorie went to 207 every other day. Gabe would be in bed, in sweatpants, a newspaper spread around him. One day, he asked to hold the baby. She liked …
Valentine and I looked so consummately right as a couple: stylish, easily intimate, his arm dropped casually across my shoulder, our clasped hands swinging…
The revolutionary author helped to create a new society, Susan Faludi wrote, in 2013. But she couldn’t live in it.
Burkhard Bilger writes about the enduring allure of Mars, and the Earthlings who theorized about the red planet through the years.
Noah Baumbach’s New Wave.
Forget Rose’s sidewalk speeches, her tirades against the residents of the dead utopia of Sunnyside Gardens, corrupted by the onrush of coming …
Raffi Khatchadourian profiles Falafel—real name, Matvey Natanzon—the highest-ranked backgammon player in the world.
An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.
Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics.
Nicholas Schmidle writes about the military career and murder of Chris Kyle, a decorated sniper who was shot by a troubled veteran he took under his wing.
During the next decade, Duquet began to acquire tracts of woodland in Maine. From time to time, Duquet would join Forgeron in the Maine woods to explore …
Once she’d reached the edge of the meadow, she stopped, unable at first to understand what she was seeing: two figures, proximate and mutually wary, one …
Calvin Tomkins writes about Ed Ruscha, the Los Angeles-based modern artist who made a name for himself, in the nineteen-sixties, with paintings of words.
The Supreme Court’s embrace of gay rights last week had an almost serene majesty. Yet the decision had its roots in something prosaic and largely …
In England and Scotland, investigators from the National Wildlife Crime Unit and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds pursue collectors who illegally steal bird eggs. Some egg thieves have been members of the Jourdain Society.
Some innovations spread quickly. Atul Gawande asks, How do you share the ones that don’t?
Ariel Levy on the Steubenville rape case, social media’s role in the investigation, and the online vigilantes who set out to shame the accused.
Sarah Stillman on civil forfeiture, wherein police departments can confiscate money and possessions without charging the owners with a crime.
In the world’s second-largest refugee camp, Syrians find that it’s not easy to flee the war.
India’s anti-corruption crusader enters politics.
Where do Claire Danes’s volcanic performances come from?
Returning home from the ceremony where he had just buried his father, Mohamed felt as though the burden he carried had become heavier. He had just turned …
A child woke up in the dark. She seemed to swim up into consciousness as if to a surface, which she then broke through, looking around with her eyes open. …
“The breeze, God, the breeze! she thought. You get how many like it? Maybe a dozen in a lifetime . . . and already gone, down the block and picking up speed, or dying out. What if she failed to make the most of what remained of this perfect spring day?” A short story by Joshua Ferris.
How Joyce DiDonato, of Prairie Village, Kansas, conquered opera.
When I was a child, I had a family of doll people. They lived in a red shoebox painted to look like a house, with a dark-brown roof and yellow awnings. …
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur.
Two muses, one loaf.
The double life of a Hungarian politician.
Ariel Levy writes about her pregnancy, her journey to Mongolia, and a personal tragedy.
The woman showed Brooke Shields a picture of a for-sale sign propped up on the back of a maroon two-door 1983 Mercedes SEC. In parentheses were the words …
Calvin Trillin on the closure of the family-owned mozzarella shop Joe’s Dairy, in the South Village, and the treasure of ten-stop shopping—“not just for the quality of the goods but for the companionship and the ritual.”
Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions?
The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
Katherine Zoepf visits Saudi Arabia’s lingerie stores, and writes about the country’s social shifts as women take jobs as store clerks for the first time.