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Hating Nell Freudenberger -- the 28-year-old writer celebrated in Vogue and Elle -- is a virtual cottage industry among ambitious literati. And I was ready to hate her too -- until I read her book.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
September 4, 2003
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Using Eminem, badly, for political gain.
By Andrew Sullivan
November 16, 2002
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Listen to a story by Paul Rudnick in which he suggests headlines for imaginary teen publications -- an excerpt from "Fierce Pajamas," a collection of humor writings from the New Yorker.
Read by Chris Gannon
April 26, 2002
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The insatiably curious author of "The Orchid Thief" and "The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup" isn't Mister Rogers and doesn't laugh at biscotti.
By Chris Colin
February 26, 2001
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The once massively cool Tom Wolfe is trying to secure his legacy, but his new book doesn't pass the acid test.
By Matthew DeBord
November 6, 2000
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Long before he started writing about baseball for the New Yorker he was a fan of the game, and he has never been afraid to show it.
By Steve Kettmann
August 29, 2000
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Renata Adler says she's proven that she didn't defame Judge Sirica, so how come the media still doesn't believe her?
By Dennis Loy Johnson
August 21, 2000
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Spring is here. And so is the meeting of media moguls, mavens -- and the National Magazine Awards.
By Sean Elder
May 4, 2000
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In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart let it slip that the real reason she's leaving Westport, Conn., is because she's lonely.
By Kate Moses
April 11, 2000
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Stanley Tucci and Ian Holm face off as a New Yorker writer and the loopy Greenwich Village street character he turned into a celebrity -- with devastating results.
By Charles Taylor
April 7, 2000
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The crowd goes wild for Ted Turner at the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation annual banquet and celebration of the First Amendment. The world is indeed full of wonders. Plus! Jennifer Love Hewitt's secret clerical obsession.
By Amy Reiter
March 20, 2000
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In "The Tipping Point," Malcolm Gladwell makes a valuable contribution to the literature of contagion. But is it worth its $1 million advance?
By Gavin McNett
March 17, 2000
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The monthly sweeps five National Magazine Award nominations, but its resurrection is still a work in progress.
By Sean Elder
March 16, 2000
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In her relentless pursuit of the truth she's left a few bodies in her wake, but isn't that part of a journalist's job?
By Craig Seligman
February 29, 2000
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The New Yorker cartoonist picks five books you'd better hide from the kids.
By Roz Chast
February 28, 2000
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Vive Laetitia Casta, busty symbol of France! Plus: Oxygen sucks the intellectual air out of women's television; just say no to the war on drugs.
Letters to the editor
February 24, 2000
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Dave Eggers talks, with some reluctance, about the staggering work of being a genius parent.
By Amy Benfer
February 22, 2000
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Do you have what it takes to be us?
By Charles Taylor
February 18, 2000
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Was it Utopia? Camelot? Paradise? Or does the possibility exist that, as fine as it once was, it was still just a magazine?
By Gavin McNett
February 17, 2000
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A Valentine's-themed bash honors the magazine's book-award winners, chosen by its readers -- well, sort of.
By Laura Miller
February 16, 2000
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A self-revealing reflection on the sick fixations of the media elite stalls out. Is a guerrilla war enough to wake them up?
By Austin Bunn
February 15, 2000
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No one sheds light on darkness from quite the same perspective as this Cape Cod specialist in morbid, fine-lined jocularity.
By Amy Benfer
February 15, 2000
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Former "Talk of the Town" reporter Ian Frazier talks about hanging out with the Oglala Sioux.
By Craig Seligman
February 1, 2000
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Author Jeffrey Toobin tells of a "rockin' ride," a "perverted doughboy" and the thing that Paula Jones "just won't do"; Twisted Sister doesn't wanna rock with John Rocker. Plus: Whitney Houston -- one toke over the luau?
By Amy Reiter
January 19, 2000
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The man who broke the story of Vietnam's My Lai massacre is still the hardest-working muckraker in the journalism business.
By David Rubien
January 18, 2000
Too young, too pretty, too successful
Idiocy of the week
Teen Times
Susan Orlean
Hang it up, Tom
Roger Angell
Interview with the heretic
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
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