Best New Yorker Articles of 2014
Explore 47 featured picks from The New Yorker's 2014 issues.
47 picks · 47 issues · Top author: Jill Lepore (3)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
Rebecca Mead profiles the best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner, who takes the literary media to task for being biased against female writers and readers.
The valley-fever menace.
David Remnick talks to the President about what he hopes to accomplish in his second term and whether he will satisfy the standard he set for himself.
Ken Auletta on Netflix, which is changing the business of television and the nature of television shows.
After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him.
Roger Angell writes about life after ninety: “I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.”
Vladimir Putin lives his Olympic dream.
Will a grand national project enrich Nicaragua, or only its leader?
Andrew Solomon on Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, who killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Connecticut.
As soon as she had settled into her seat at Euston, the man across the table had shown signs of wanting to talk. He had asked her how far she was going and…
The complicated life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
Who is there to help you but the person who is answering your questions?
Where gang members and their female guards set the rules.
The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior.
Why do we still search for relics of the Bard?
Patrick Radden Keefe on the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is known as El Chapo, the notorious head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.
Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
SKETCHBOOK about the Frieze Art Fair, showing a woman looking at an art installation. “At an art fair you can’t go wrong with a tall, skinny red ladder…
In Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics.
David Gilbert’s short story about chance meetings, attraction, parenthood, plane rides, and fate.
Sarah Stillman on the private-probation industry, which offers alternatives to incarceration by charging small-time offenders ever-mounting fees.
Nathan Heller profiles Richard Linklater, the filmmaker behind “Dazed and Confused,” “Before Sunrise,” “Boyhood,” and other movies.
Nathan Heller on the tech industry's gentrification of California's Bay Area and why philanthropy may not be enough to address the resulting real-estate crisis and lack of jobs.
Eli and Marta were trying to have a baby. But before they had their baby, they had decided to do every last thing that a baby precludes, every last …
Kelefa Sanneh on the U.F.C. fighter Ronda Rousey.
Nicholas Schmidle on the case of Tyrone Hood, who is in prison for the 1993 murder of Marshall Morgan and has always maintained his innocence. Did the Chicago police coerce witnesses into pinpointing the wrong man for homicide—allowing a serial killer to commit more murders?
Mark Singer on Roger Angell, who travelled to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”
Jill Lepore writes about Governor Andrew Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, the history of political corruption, and what the Constitution has to say on the matter.
Rebecca Mead profiles the Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, whose fight against misogyny has made her a feminist heroine.
Anonymous has targeted Middle Eastern dictators, the Church of Scientology, PayPal, and the Ferguson police. David Kushner reports.
William Finnegan on the fast-food workers’ movement and the fight, with the help of the S.E.I.U., for a livable minimum wage and a union.
Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman’s real origin story: she was a utopian feminist creation, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love.
Alice Gregory on Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, and his unusual approach to fund-raising and endowments.
Jennifer Gonnerman on Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen-ager who was accused of stealing a backpack. He spent more than a thousand days awaiting trial.
In 2012, prosecutors accused S.A.C.’s Mathew Martoma of “engineering the most lucrative insider-trading scheme in history.” Patrick Radden Keefe reports.
George Packer profiles the filmmaker, whose new documentary, “Citizenfour,” tells the inside story of the N.S.A. whistle-blower.
As the epidemic widens, the virus is mutating. Geneticists are racing to keep up. Richard Preston reports.
Millions of people have sworn off wheat, but there’s little science to support them. Michael Specter investigates.
Rachel Aviv on a Hasidic sex-abuse scandal. After a child-molestation case, leaders of the community turned against the whistleblower, Sam Kellner.
Shonelle Jackson may become the first American to be executed despite a jury’s unanimous vote for life. Paige Williams reports from Alabama.
Steve Coll on whether it really serves American interests in Pakistan.
Jill Lepore on the theft of Justice Felix Frankfurter’s papers from the Library of Congress and how it changed the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Burkhard Bilger on rodeo kids. Bull riding is the most dangerous organized sport in the world, but the kids at the Camp of Champions can’t wait to compete.
Joan Acocella on Scott Herring’s “The Hoarders,” a history of hoarding from Grey Gardens to the DSM-V.
Evan Osnos profiles the American Ambassador to the U.N. How has her human-rights interventionism affected Obama’s decisions?