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Just the one can't-miss piece from each issue of the New Yorker. All because we know you're busy. And because we're really nice.

Notes of Dissent

June 2, 2014
June 2, 2014

LETTER FROM BUDAPEST
Notes of Dissent
In Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics.
by Alex Ross

Sketchbook

May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014

SKETCHBOOK
by Maira Kalman

Schooled

May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014

A REPORTER AT LARGE
Schooled
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
by Dale Russakoff

The End of Food

May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014

ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY
The End of Food
Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?

by Lizzie Widdicombe

A New Kind of Spy & The Hunt for El Chapo

May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014

DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE
A New Kind of Spy
How China obtains American technological secrets.

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.

by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Poet’s Hand

April 28, 2014
April 28, 2014

LIFE AND LETTERS
The Poet’s Hand
Why do we still search for relics of the Bard?

by Adam Gopnik

The Anchor

April 21, 2014
April 21, 2014

LETTER FROM LAMPEDUSA
The Anchor
The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior.

by Mattathias Schwartz

This is My Jail

April 14, 2014
April 14, 2014

LETTER FROM BALTIMORE
This is My Jail
Where gang members and their female guards set the rules.

by Jeffrey Toobin

Elicitation

April 7, 2014
April 7, 2014

THE WRITING LIFE
Elicitation
Who is there to help you but the person who is answering your questions?

by John McPhee

My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter

March 31, 2014
March 31, 2014

PERSONAL HISTORY
My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter
The strange life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.

by Nicholas Thompson