William Finnegan
William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. His book “ Barbarian Days ” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
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our local correspondents ·
The new president of the New York City Transit Authority wants to make the trains (and buses) run on time. It won’t be easy, William Finnegan writes.
letter from venezuela ·
Once the richest country in South America, it now has the world’s highest inflation rate and is plagued by hunger and violent crime. How did this happen?
a reporter at large ·
William Finnegan on Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s shooting, Farook’s plot with Enrique Marquez, Jr., and homegrown violent extremism.
a reporter at large ·
William Finnegan on the fast-food workers’ movement and the fight, with the help of the S.E.I.U., for a livable minimum wage and a union.
profiles ·
Gina Rinehart is Australia’s richest—and most controversial—billionaire.
letter from mexico ·
William Finnegan writes about La Familia, a drug cartel with a powerful, deadly presence in the Mexican state of Michoacán.
a reporter at large ·
A decorated marine’s war within.
letter from kosovo ·
The disputed region gears up to declare independence.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about mobsters, terrorists, and port security at New York Harbor. Global Terminal, in Bayonne, New Jersey, has one clear advantage …
a reporter at large ·
How is the N.Y.P.D. defending the city?
letter from bolivia ·
The world is running out of fresh water, and the fight to control it has begun.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa’s Dr. Wouter Basson, and the various apartheid-era clandestine weapons programs he oversaw as leader of Project …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Moctar Teyeb, a former Mauritanian slave now living in the Bronx... he was born, in 1959, abd—a slave. More specifically, as he grew up, it …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the civil war in Sudan.
a reporter at large ·
What happened behind the scenes of Theodore Kaczynski’s abrupt, unsatisfying, and badly understood decision to plead guilty?
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about neo-Nazi youth gangs in Antelope Valley, California... With the completion of the Antelope Valley Freeway, it became possible to …
comment ·
Signed comment on Bosnia. ...The Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the fighting [in Bosnia] last November, was the product of vigorous American …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Juan Guerrero, 20, of Mexican decent living in Sunnyside, Washington, and about Hispanic youth gangs... He was born in Zacatecas,…
high stakes dept. ·
The Talk of the Town by William Finnegan, from 1995: High above the East River, on a dark maintenance platform under a well-known bridge, eight people take the plunge.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about cocaine trafficking in east Texas, especially in the town and county of San Augustine; a drug bust there called Operation White …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's experience on a jury for the trial of Martin Kaplan, 23, a petty thief who was convicted in a subway mugging. …
the sporting scene ·
The second part of William Finnegan’s personal essay about his surfing days in San Francisco and his friendship with Dr. Mark Renneker.
the sporting scene ·
Part 1 of William Finnegan's personal essay about his surfing days in San Francisco and his friendship with Dr. Mark Renneker.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the drug traffic in New Haven, CT, and especially about the black underclass. The illegal drug business enjoyed a spectacular …
a reporter at large ·
Menytioned in REPORTER AT LARGE about Mozambique. Frelimo is the nationalist movement whose guerrillas defeated the Portuguese to win Mozambique's …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about Mozambique. The main cause of the countrywide suffering is the war being waged against the govt. (called Frelimo) by the …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa Writer spent about 6 weeks last year with a group of black reporters on the Johannesburg "Star". Qwelane, who was …
a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa. Writer spent time with Jon Qwelane, 34, a black journalist, who works for the Johannesburg "Star". He is the senior …