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Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009
Hearth Surgery: A stove to transform the developing world.
Annals of Innovation
Hearth Surgery
A stove to transform the developing world.
by Burkhard Bilger
Testing, Testing: The complex battle to cut health-care costs.
Testing, Testing
The complex battle to cut health-care costs.
by Atul Gawande
This was a wonderful issue overall and if you have the time, I also recommend reading The Celebrity Defense: Sex, justice, and Roman Polanski. by Jeffrey Toobin, The Most Failed State: Somalia’s new President. by Jon Lee Anderson, and “All That” by David Foster Wallace.
Portraits of Power: Leaders of the world.
Portraits of Power
Leaders of the world.
by Platon
Politics of Death: From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.
The Politics of Death
From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.
by Jill Lepore
The Taste Makers: Inside the labs that flavor your food.
Annals of Science
The Taste Makers
Inside the labs that flavor your food.
by Raffi Khatchadourian
If you have some extra time, Pilgrim’s Progress: The challenges of Thanksgiving abroad. by Jane Kramer and Reading into recipes. by Adam Gopnik are both wonderful pieces.
The Pharaoh: The man who controls Egyptology.
Letter from Cairo
The Pharaoh
The man who controls Egyptology.
by Ian Parker
Premium Harmony
“Premium Harmony”
by Stephen King
The Good Cook: A starving patriot in North Korea.
The Good Cook
A starving patriot in North Korea.
by Barbara Demick
If you want a second piece to read, While the Women are Sleeping by Javier Marías is beautifully haunting (and hauntingly beautiful).
Man of Extremes: James Cameron and “Avatar.”
Man of Extremes
James Cameron and “Avatar.”
by Dana Goodyear
This is a great issue overall and, if you have the time, I recommend also reading Chinese Barbizon: A factory town’s “art village.” by Peter Hessler and the simply fantastic “Procedure in Plain Air” by Jonathan Lethem.
