A Second Chance
On learning persuasion.
The New Yorker
The Double Life of Peter Arno
On the pioneering New Yorker cartoonist.
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America
On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.
Can Andy Byford Save the Subways?
It won’t be easy.
Looking for Life on a Flat Earth
What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.
The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma
A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.
The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing
Flying straight from the future.
How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
Why are we still involved?
Estonia, the Digital Republic
Tech takes over the post-Soviet nation.
Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
Andy Borowitz Is Not Trying to Trick You
A profile of the polarizing New Yorker columnist.
The Last Amazon
On Wonder Woman’s feminist past.
The Eternal Paternal
On Bill Cosby’s complicated family life.
The Patron and the Panhandler
Fifty years after Joseph Mitchell published “Joe Gould’s Secret” in The New Yorker, one last question about Gould—the identity of his anonymous benefactor—is answered.
The Letter
How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.
Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.
Smugged by Reality
On New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.
The Last Gentleman
On New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow’s descent into madness.
The Buzz Factory
This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.
An Interview with David Remnick
“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”
Making It Look Easy at the New Yorker
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written a new Obama biography expected to be a best-seller. His frugal streak has kept his staff intact. And yet, after a dozen years, he’s still the new guy at Condé Nast.
