Category Archives: Profiles

Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance

September 9, 2024 New Yorker cover
September 9, 2024

Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance
by Molly Fischer

The Barefoot Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.

Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

March 11, 2024 New Yorker cover
March 11, 2024

Joe Biden’s Last Campaign
by Evan Osnos

Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, the President voices defiant confidence in his prospects for reëlection.

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built

November 20, 2023 New Yorker cover
November 20, 2023

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
by Joshua Rothman

Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better than ours.

The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape

May 29, 2023 New Yorker cover
May 29, 2023

The Tortured Bond of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape
by Rachel Aviv

Anthony Broadwater spent sixteen years in prison and twenty-two more as a registered sex offender. For him and for the author of “The Lovely Bones,” justice is a difficult dream.

The Defiance of Salman Rushdie

February 13 & 20, 2023 New Yorker cover
February 13 & 20, 2023

The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
by David Remnick

After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act.

Emma Thompson’s Third Act

November 14, 2022 New Yorker cover
November 14, 2022

Emma Thompson’s Third Act
by John Lahr

The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.

Late Harvest

February 28, 2022 New Yorker cover
February 28, 2022

Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
by Dorothy Wickenden

Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward.

How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit

February 14 & 21, 2022 New Yorker cover
February 14 & 21, 2022

How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit
by Jonathan Blitzer

The musician’s political persecution pushed him into a career he was never sure he wanted.

Kitchen Confessional

December 20, 2021 New Yorker cover
December 20, 2021

Alison Roman Just Can’t Help Herself
by Lauren Collins

A food-world star’s method and mess.

Let the Record Show

October 18, 2021 New Yorker cover
October 11, 2021

Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want to Stop the Show
by David Remnick

Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he’s still correcting the record—and making new ones.