"Friendly Fire" Author C.D.B. Bryan Dead
HARTFORD, Conn. — C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusi...
HARTFORD, Conn. — C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusi...
The New Yorker | James Wood | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books
I was excited, this year, by Lydia Davis's "Collected Stories" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a beautiful collection of original writings. Though Davis is...
The New Yorker | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
Reviewers' favorites from 2009....
The New Yorker | David Foster Wallace | Posted 12.07.2009 | Books
Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels--axles--which, as I remember, were thi...
David Finkle | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
The revival of S. N. Behrman's Biography has me thinking about someone who's fascinated me for years, someone well-known at the time the play debuted but virtually forgotten now: Neysa McMein.
Anne Hill | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Brain wave patterns during lucid dreaming show a typical REM sleep pattern associated with dreaming, mixed in with patterns associated with waking awareness.
Jill Robinson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
In spite of the last election reassuring me that this up over personality was out of our serious new lives forever, I have been unable to avoid Sarah Palin over the past few days.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School who has more recently assumed the role of chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the ...
newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...
David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.
Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.
James Warren | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media
Goldman Sachs, poster child for the double-edge sword of mega-success, now finds that even an act of charity brings rebuke.
newyorker.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
Is your pet a member of the Critterati? View the gallery of New Yorker readers' pets, dressed up as a literary character....
AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star wors...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...
The New Yorker | Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein. We like Reddit bites (they're better than Delicious),...
Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
Calling in those McKinsey folks to review your profit and loss numbers in the middle of the deepest recession since the 1930s is a little like having Dr. Kevorkian over to offer a second opinion.
David Finkle | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Since none of the fiction lovers to whom I mention Mavis Gallant has more than the vaguest notion who she is -- this, despite her being singled out fo...
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.
Beth Arnold | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
There is no question that Obama is repairing the perception of the U.S. throughout the world, but the stark reality is this: He is up against those who still want to make us smaller than we ever were throughout history.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy
Back in April, to honor National Poetry Month -- a sadly neglected holiday that sits somewhere between French Fry Week and Pick Up a Rock Day -- I introduced the brilliant Herb Vandecker.
Beth Arnold | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
It was a beautiful bang of an evening with swishy chorus girls covering luminous curvy skin with a parade of splendid costumes. Modern burlesque diva Dita Von Teese headlines this extraordinary show at the historic Casino de Paris.
James Warren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.
Barry Scheck | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Whether our criminal justice system has executed an innocent man should no longer be an open question. Cameron Todd Willingham's case proves that.
James Warren | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media
Some jilted lovers don't get mad, they get even. Jenny Sanford, wife of the South Carolina governor, decided to get Anna Wintour.
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books