Best New Yorker Articles of 2016

Laura Secor on Asieh Amini, a poet and journalist who risked everything by challenging Sharia law.

Fiction by Anne Carson: “What is the price of desolation, and who pays.”

Paul Kix on the 1985 rape of Michele Mallin, the wrongful imprisonment of Timothy Cole, and a criminal-justice innovation in Texas.

After undergoing controversial surgery, Darek Fidyka is taking his first steps toward recovery. D. T. Max reports.

Jon Lee Anderson on Michel Martelly, the President of Haiti and the singer “Sweet Micky.”

Sam Knight on the shipper turned art dealer Yves Bouvier, the Geneva Freeport, Natural Le Coultre, and a lawsuit with Dmitry Rybolovlev.

William Finnegan on Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s shooting, Farook’s plot with Enrique Marquez, Jr., and homegrown violent extremism.

Nick Paumgarten on Peter Adeney, the man behind the blog Mr. Money Mustache, which promises liberation through thrift.

Matthieu Aikins on Hikmatullah Shadman, a young military contractor who amassed a fortune. But was it profit or profiteering?

Sarah Stillman on the sex-offender registry, and what happens when juveniles are accused of misconduct.

Robert Draper on the TV star’s trip to meet the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán and the Rolling Stone story it produced.

George Packer on the radicalization that followed the Jasmine Revolution.

Carolyn Kormann on a restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, that was opened by Claus Meyer and whose head chef is Kamilla Seidler.

Fiction: “What sorts of crimes are committed by an unjustly incarcerated man who’s travelled through a rift in the space-time continuum?”

Ben Taub on the documents, captured by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.

Kelefa Sanneh on the musician behind “Baduizm,” “Mama’s Gun,” and recently “But You Caint Use My Phone.”

Eyal Press on Harriet Krzykowski and the Dade Correctional Institution, where guards beat and starved the inmates—and even killed one.

Despite her humble origins, she seems to have internalized Donald’s outlook. She’s as imperial as her husband, if not more so. Lauren Collins writes.

Mary Karr pleads: Oh, womenfolk, as we once burned our bras, could we not torch the footwear crucifying us?

Sarah Larson on Billy Eichner, the creator of “Billy on the Street” and the star of “Difficult People,” which was created by Julie Klausner.

Jane Mayer on James O’Keefe, an amateurish spy, and his hit jobs against George Soros and Hillary Clinton.

Kathryn Schulz on a Mexican-food entrepreneur from South Asia, and a recent upswing of Islamophobia.

Jennifer Gonnerman on Derrick Hamilton, a wrongfully convicted prisoner who achieved a legal landmark.

Evan Osnos on the politics and business of the concealed-carry phenomenon, and the success of the gunmaker Smith & Wesson.

Rebecca Mead on the man curating the auction house’s themed sales, like “Bound to Fail” and “If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday.”

John Seabrook on the rise of the hip-hop producer who has created hits for Miley Cyrus, Jay Z, Kanye West, Rihanna, and Beyoncé.

Jane Mayer on Tony Schwartz, the journalist who authored “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump’s best-seller, but who opposes Trump’s Presidential aims.

Héctor Tobar on an organization’s work to get ballots cast and counted, which may help to determine who wins the 2016 election.

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

Jeffrey Toobin on the lawyer, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.”

Nick Paumgarten on the chef’s mysterious basement restaurant in Earlton, New York, and its ten-year waiting list.

She is known for the brilliance of her playing and for her dramatic outfits.

Burkhard Bilger attends a session with Gabriele Baring where Germans address their family histories and inherited trauma from the Second World War.

Reflecting on the irreproducible color of the monument’s patina.

Anna Lyndsey’s memoir of extreme light sensitivity got rave reviews—but doctors have doubts about her story.

President Obama’s plan normalized relations. It may also transform the nation.

Nathan Heller explores the way that Sweden is phasing out paper money, and examines a potentially cashless future.

At eighty-two, the troubadour has another album coming. Like him, it is obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.

An investigator who probes wrongful convictions now doubts a case of his own.

George Packer on how the Democratic Party was once popular among white working-class Americans, but has lost that group’s loyalty.

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Once the richest country in South America, it now has the world’s highest inflation rate and is plagued by hunger and violent crime. How did this happen?

What happened when a TV producer got the writer’s permission to adapt a beloved short story?

David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, and what President Barack Obama’s reaction to the new political landscape is.

The Spanish director made a name for himself with raunchy, transgressive films. His latest is a tender adaptation of Alice Munro.

Formerly incarcerated undergrads started a group on campus to offer mentoring, support, and advocacy to other onetime inmates.

Hulk Hogan’s smashing legal victory shows us that publishing the truth may no longer be enough.