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Ten best New Yorker pieces from 2009

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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 →

Dept. of Medicine

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

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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.

Profiles

Man of Extremes: James Cameron and “Avatar.”

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October 26, 2009
October 26, 2009

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.