The Uses Of Adversity | Malcolm Gladwell | New Yorker | 10th November 2008
All of the New Yorker’s content is temporarily available free on line while the web site is updated; browse and enjoy previously gated favourites. Here is a Malcolm Gladwell piece on a very Gladwellian...
View ArticleSecrets Of The Magus | Mark Singer | New Yorker | 5th April 1993
I’ll continue to throw in recommendations for classic New Yorker articles as long as the online archive remains open. This profile of magician Ricky Jay, “the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive”...
View ArticleHow To Be Good | Larissa MacFarquhar | New Yorker | 5th September 2011
Another superb profile from the New Yorker’s archive, de-paywalled for the summer. Derek Parfit is perhaps the most original moral philosopher in the English-speaking world. He believes there are true...
View ArticlePainkiller Deathstreak | Nicholson Baker | New Yorker | 9th August 2010
Another treasure from the ungated New Yorker archives. A novelist learns to play video games. “My son could have shot me many times, but he didn’t. ‘Go ahead!’ I said. ‘No, Dad,’ he said, ‘I’m not...
View ArticleDraft Number Four | John McPhee | New Yorker | 29th April 2013
Another classic from the New Yorker’s ungated archive, while it lasts. John McPhee on how to beat writer’s block. Always plan on four drafts. The first is the dark night of the soul. “Blurt out, heave...
View ArticleWithdrawing With Style From The Chaos | Kenneth Tynan | New Yorker | 19th...
And, while the archive remains open, another classic from the New Yorker. Kenneth Tynan delivers a sparkling profile of the still-quite-young Tom Stoppard, “one of the two or three most prosperous and...
View ArticleIsadora | Janet Flanner | New Yorker | 1st January 1927
Sketch of Isadora Duncan at 50, nine months before her death, dancing in Nice with Jean Cocteau accompanying. “She stands almost immobile or in slow splendid steps with slow splendid arms moves to...
View ArticleCovering The Cops | Calvin Trillin | New Yorker | 17th February 1986
Classic profile of Edna Buchanan, later a celebrated crime novelist, in her days as crime reporter for the Miami Herald. She “dresses every morning to the sound of the police scanner”. When she started...
View ArticleThere And Back Again | Nick Paumgarten | New Yorker | 16th April 2007
The contradictions of commuting. The more we profess to hate it, the more, on average, we do it. “Commuting is like sex or sleep: everyone lies. It is said that doctors, when they ask you how much you...
View ArticleScientist And Mob Idol | Alva Johnston | New Yorker | 2nd December 1933
Profile of Albert Einstein, “a mental Hercules, according to those who know his work”. Once reclusive, “he has developed into a mixer, a wit, an authority on things in general” since moving to America...
View ArticleHow Do You Like It Now Gentlemen? | Lillian Ross | New Yorker | 13th May 1950
Profile of Ernest Hemingway, “who may well be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer”. On a visit to New York he brings the manuscript of a new book, Across The River And Into The...
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