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Jane Kramer

Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964 and has written the Letter from Europe since 1981.

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11 picks · 1968–2015

Featured Picks

Road Warrior
profiles ·

Jane Kramer writes about the writer and activist Gloria Steinem, whose book “My Life on the Road” comes out in October, and her influence on feminism.

The Philosopher Chef
profiles ·

Yotam Ottolenghi’s ideas are changing the way London eats.

The Food at Our Feet
a reporter at large ·

Jane Kramer on foraging with the chef René Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen, had then been twice named the best in the world. “Foraging is treasure hunting,” he says.

Against Nature
profiles ·

Elisabeth Badinter’s contrarian feminism.

A Canterbury Tale
a reporter at large ·

The battle within the Church of England to allow women to be bishops.

The Petition
our local correspondents ·

Israel, Palestine, and a tenure battle at Barnard.

Round One
letter from europe ·

The battle for France.

The Pope And Islam
letter from europe ·

Jane Kramer on Benedict XVI, Catholicism, and Islam.

The Life of the Party
a reporter at large ·

Jane Kramer on how a left-wing socialite created an intellectual salon that took over an entire building and ran for forty years.

Whose Art Is It?
in the south bronx ·

Jane Kramer’s classic 1992 story about the sculptor John Ahearn, whose statues of his Bronx neighbors launched a debate over political correctness and who has the right to make art for the city.

Paterfamilias—I
profiles ·

Jane Kramer’s Profile of the poet Allen Ginsberg, at work planning the 1967 “Human Be-In” at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.