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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.

Bread and Women

November 4, 2013
November 4, 2013

PERSONAL HISTORY
Bread and Women
Two muses, one loaf.
by Adam Gopnik

Bonus pick:
PROFILES
Post-Modena
Italy’s food is bound by tradition. Its most famous chef isn’t.
by Jane Kramer

Home Movies

October 28, 2013

PROFILES
Home Movies
Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur.
by Margaret Talbot

Bonus pick:

REFLECTIONS
Now We Are Five
A big family, at the beach.
by David Sedaris

Private Eyes

October 21, 2013

LETTER FROM HAVANA
Private Eyes
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
by Jon Lee Anderson

Bonus pick:

PROFILES
Two-hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, is now making big money at Square—and is out to prove that he’s more than a lucky man.
by D.T. Max

Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009

The New Yorkerest project is here to help you get a head start on your New Year’s resolution to eliminate that bedside stack of New Yorker magazines.  Think of all the things you could do with the extra space on your bedside table.

It’s no easy task to narrow an already-crowded roster of amazing New Yorker articles from this year. Alas, a top-47 list would prove unwieldy, so without further ado here are my ten favorite pieces from 2009 (in publication order) Continue reading Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009

Testing, Testing: The complex battle to cut health-care costs.

December 14, 2009
December 14, 2009

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.