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Anna Russell

Anna Russell , a contributing writer for The New Yorker , began writing for the magazine in 2017. She lives in London.

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9 picks · 1995–2024

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Gwyneth v. Skier: You Be the Judge!
the boards ·

Two London playwrights prep for “Gwyneth Goes Skiing,” a comic play about Gwyneth Paltrow’s legal battle with an optometrist over a crash on the slopes in Deer Valley, Anna Russell writes.

The Patriot
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about John Pitner, and the militia movement... Writer tells about meeting Pitner for the first time in 1996, about four months before…

The Invisible Designer
profiles ·

PROFILE of fashion designer Helmut Lang, 43... Writer tells about trying on Lang's clothing in Camouflage, a store in Chelsea... Tells about the …

Sleeping With the Baby
annals of parenthood ·

ANNALS OF PARENTHOOD about parents and infants co-sleeping in the same bed... My wife and I sleep with our ten-month-old son...This puts us on the wrong …

After Shock
profiles ·

PROFILE of English artist Damien Hirst, 34... He is an open, friendly, humorous, quick-witted, dirty-minded, hard-drinking, immensely likable Yorkshireman…

The Politics of Hysteria
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about multiple-personality disorder. The writer describes the case of Elizabeth Carlson, who, in the late 1980s and early '90s, …

The Many Lives of David Geffen
profiles ·

PROFILE of David Geffen. Entertainment moguls usually come from the film business, sometimes from TV, almost never from the record industry: never before …

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ÉLITIST
profiles ·

After twenty years at the helm, Philippe de Montebello wants the Met to keep pulling in crowds—but not if it has to become a theme park.

THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
letter from germany ·

LETTER FROM GERMANY about the controversy over the proposed Holocaust memorial in Berlin. It could be said that in the fifty years since the war in Europe …