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New Yorker staff writer, Vogue contributing editor, semi-pro eavesdropper, overcaffeinated earth child. Now writing THE PRIVATE ORDER for Penguin Press.

California and New York

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Nathan Heller

5 months

Just a reminder that my courteous, well-dressed, low-volume newsletter—announcing new pieces of my writing, my occasional public appearances, and nothing else—has been compelled to change platforms. It is now on Substack, and you can sign up here.

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About - Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co. appears unpredictably, with the east wind. Its only purpose is to alert you to new published writing by Nathan Hel…. Click to read "Special Delivery from...

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4 years

Story of a 66-year-old researcher, an immigrant, who rarely got grants, never got her own lab, never earned more than $60K. For four decades, she kept working on mRNA—a path considered foolish. Her work is the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

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Long Overlooked, Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus (Published 2021)

Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.

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Because Biden has spoken publicly about trying to manage his stutter, I feel comfortable noting, as another person with a stutter: there is no greater nightmare than this. None. If he makes it to the end of this standing, he has steel in his bones.

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Your annual reminder that Feinstein discovered Harvey Milk's dead body, had her house bomb-rigged and shot at, went against the CIA in investigating U.S. torture practices, etc. She is eighty-six and still tough as nails.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein says IG report "conclusively refutes" claims of political motivation by Pres. Trump, Attorney General Barr. "There is no Deep State. Simply put, the FBI investigation was motivated by facts, not bias."

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For a decade, humanities enrollment has plummeted. What’s going on? In this week’s @NewYorker , I report at two campuses—ASU and Harvard—and ask “what it might mean to graduate a college generation with less education in the human past” than any before.

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The End of the English Major

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

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The morning after the House passed infrastructure, I met Congressman Jamie Raskin at home for @voguemagazine . Raskin was in the Capitol with his family on January 6, a few days after his son’s suicide. From there, he immediately led the second impeachment.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin On Surviving A Double Blow of Tragedy and Finding the Strength to Lead

His highly personal memoir, Unthinkable, is out now.

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5 years

Just discovered that my sister, when she makes a grocery list, pre-organizes it by likely location in the supermarket. No mind could be more different.

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E. B. White, on nationalism and the moon landing

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This footage—maybe the most alarming I've seen—seems to cross chillingly from the territory of the cruel to the territory of the inhuman.

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Vine St. Expressway, Philly. THEY ARE LITERALLY TRAPPED.

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This talent—translating, say, an immanent refutation of originalism into a lucid cable-news sound bite—is perhaps Buttigieg's greatest.

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Nothing, just @PeteButtigieg ad-libbing the perfect response to breaking news.

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@jackshafer Though there’s a difference between stones smoothed over by generations of human touch and a bit of quartz coming down the conveyor belt from the auto-mining of the quarry.

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"Art of the Deal" ghostwriter, who shadowed Trump for 18 months, believes him a "sociopath."

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Like many people, I woke this morning to sad news. Here's the obit I just wrote for next week's @NewYorker .

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What Joan Didion Saw

Her writing and thinking captured momentous change in American life—and in her own.

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4 years

This thread, about Ernie Chambers, a barber turned lawmaker, is worth reading.

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6 years

In this week's @NewYorker , I have what may be the most unusual, and personal, essay I've published. It's a memoir about California and family over decades. It's an urban history. It's an account of one path toward the American present. It's a love story.

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Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco

What a family’s story says about a city of romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes.

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7 years

This is an astonishing protest speech—not least because of the way it uses the national cameras and the crowd and frames itself to cut through expectation. The fact it was conceived—and dared—by a high-schooler is just breathtaking.

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6 years

Olivia Colman's career didn't really take off until she was in her forties. Aside from being a real actor, she's carving out a path for actresses who, a while back, would have thought the window closed if they didn't break through as an ingenue.

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4 years

Genuinely bizarre. Clare is a first-tier politics writer with a large and avid following.

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Clare Malone

4 years

So, I got laid off late last week as part of the ABC News layoffs. I won’t lie, it was a bit of a surprise, but if anything 2020 has been perspective-setting & I’m grateful for the past 5 years, if a little sad. So...onward. Some of my best work follows. (Hi, editors!) 1/

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The state of California is the world’s fifth-largest economy and the seat of the tech industry, the entertainment industry, and, at the moment, Democratic institutional policy. Coverage matters. The L.A. Times’ mass layoff of more than a hundred journalists should raise alarms.

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california deserves a real newspaper

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4 years

One of my extremely august New Yorker colleagues told me on our first meeting that after years of reading my writing she expected a much shorter man. I think about this once or twice a month.

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4 years

Homelessness in America is usually written in pieces—this experience, that cause, such aid—but that’s not the nature of the problem or its intractability. In this week’s @NewYorker , I look at the ecosystem as a whole, focussed on one city: San Francisco.

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A Window Onto an American Nightmare

As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city’s struggles?

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1 year

@jonahweiner Except that a door would never sit, it would be “gray,” and there would be a comma after “building.”

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10 years

RIP Robin Williams, the voice man who was never anyone except himself. http://t.co/TxZxNm34k3

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5 years

Advice to young writers: never outline anything. Terrible idea. Every few years, I get weak and decide I’m going to outline something. I always end up losing time sorting out the mess the outline made.

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Three adult men put on ties to do this.

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Newsmax guest attacks Biden's dogs for being dirty and "unlike a presidential dog"

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In this week's @NewYorker , I report from San Francisco, which, in the eyes of the national press, went from metropolitan ideal to urban nightmare in suspiciously short order. What's actually going on?

What Happened to San Francisco, Really?

It depends on which tech bro, city official, billionaire investor, grassroots activist, or Michelin-starred restaurateur you ask.

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5 years

The details of this photograph—the empty seats on the couch, the cameras all looking past her, the foregrounded yellow roses (which traditionally mean "cheer up" or "I'm sorry")—are quite extraordinary. That this was selected as her official birthday photo is perhaps more so.

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Happy Birthday, @FLOTUS !

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Here's to a Better 2019 Dept.: In the first @NewYorker of the new year, I profile the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson, who has worked for decades to repair the structure of democratic culture among people predisposed to disagree.

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There's a weird social fashion in a certain cultural and professional caste in San Francisco right now where San Francisco is supposed to be described as the worst place, a nightmare city. I have lived in a number of places and visited many more. This is a very strange narrative.

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Almost exactly ten years ago I was working in a cubicle when mail from a NYer editor landed in my Outlook. They’d been reading—might I want to try a Critics piece on Pauline Kael? Five thousand words, say what you see fit, deliver in a month. Life-changing e-mail. It’s still fun.

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7 years

The words don't appear to mean anything; they are a performance of what he thinks important people say when conducting serious business.

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Trump pretends he will "renegotiate" Paris - which is a voluntary non-binding pact. Renegotiate with whom? He can't do anything - only undo.

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France should maybe ask for its statue back.

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5 years

Also please note that Roger Angell, who started contributing to The New Yorker in the mid-nineteen-forties, is still publishing.

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In honor of Roger Angell, who turns 99 today, revisit his moving 2014 essay on aging. “Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life,” he writes, “but the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love.”

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I’ve lived in and loved some ten very different cities in my day, but San Francisco: what a knockout.

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4 years

Notable that one hears less from the moving-to-Texas-for- low-taxes-and-deregulation people when they can't leave home because the roads haven't been plowed, can't use the water because the processing plants are failing, can't boil the water because the grid was never winterized.

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5 years

The degree to which coverage is focussed on what the President is saying about coronavirus—it’s too much. It isn’t the main story. To the extent that what he’s saying seems largely to fluctuate with his mood, it’s not even clear that it’s A story.

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Hemingway is one of those constantly misread writers, in that people think his literary innovation had something to do with the machismo character he put on in life. No relation. The point when that persona seeped into the work is when the work ceased to be remarkable.

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7 years

I imagine that being tied to a chair and watching burglars go through your cabinets feels a lot like this.

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8 years

The party of Reagan With scarcely a grouse Invited the Kremlin To take the White House.

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4 years

It is really genuinely strange that the defining Republican position in this election is “We do not take health and sanitation precautions during a pandemic.”

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Reid J. Epstein

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South Carolina Senate debate tonight: Jaime Harrison has a plexiglass shield. Lindsay Graham does not.

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5 years

@jelani9 Thanks to the proliferation of checkout apps, there’s also huge expansion in pre-tipping—tipping for something that hasn’t happened yet—which makes it less a responsive gesture of gratitude and more transparently a topping-up of insufficient wages.

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A notable thing about Le Carré's work is that it elevated espionage and geopolitics by deglamorizing it, bringing it down to the level of any enterprise—the office politics, the plodding and hapless employees. He showed it to be human, and in that sense a fit literary subject.

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In the @NewYorker , I try to understand what's actually going on with the new campus activism, starting at Oberlin.

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6 years

If it takes nine tweets to explain how to place your serial comma, maybe rethink the rule.

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APStylebook

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Let’s start with a topic we rarely hear about: the Oxford comma! We say: Use commas to separate elements in a series, but do not put a comma before the conjunction in most simple series: The flag is red, white and blue. He would pick Deb, Xin, Lou or Alfredo. #APStyleChat (1/9)

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4 years

A lot of medical professionals on here seem baffled by the decision to give the President of the United States a high dose of a drug still in testing. (It just came out of a trial with 275 people.)

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WORRIED—you almost **never ever** give someone a clinically untested drug like @Regeneron ’s polyclonal antibody drug—unless it’s for compassionate use for someone severely ill, or you’re crazy. Right @VincentRK ? This smacks of utter craziness or desperation. #COVID19 #TrumpCovid

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This is accurate. Still, more fun than any of the alternatives.

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Writing is a great career for anyone who would like to recreate the feeling of having a term paper due the next day every day for the rest of your life.

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8 years

You know this protest is significant, because it involves people in L.A. walking somewhere. With their feet!

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Top Gay Newz

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There is at least 100,000 on the protest out here shutting down Wilshire. #UnitedAgainstHate #notmypresident #downtownLA #trumpprotest

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Imagine a thriving techie nation where you control your personal information, where records (medical, financial, traffic) are on one platform, where founders and engineers flee industry for government. In the "World Changers" @NewYorker , I go to Estonia.

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Estonia, the Digital Republic

Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future?

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6 years

Well, here's a disturbing chart.

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10 years

"Boyhood" was a tiny, cheap, creatively ambitious movie. It's great to see it scooping up awards that usually go to big, market-tested fare.

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6 years

I'm not one of these people who think that certain things happen only in New York (they don't), but I did just watch someone at the mouth of the subway try to squeeze a border collie into a literary tote bag.

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6 years

The New Yorker is an exquisitely special magazine, and its specialness emerges largely from the work of the people in this nascent union (which doesn't include us writers). It protects journalism when jobs that protect high quality have structural value and protection themselves.

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6 years

We’re proud to announce that the editorial staff of @newyorker has formed a union with @nyguild . Say hello to #NewYorkerUnion !

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No greater feat for a nonfiction writer than to invent a way of seeing and saying that renders a whole constellation of illuminating, not obvious, and previously unrenderable relationships—and to do it in a way that’s utterly distinctive but unoccluded by ego. RIP Janet Malcolm.

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6 years

In this week's @NewYorker , I profile the remarkable director Luca Guadagnino, as he goes from "Call Me by Your Name" to "Suspiria"—a horror movie about motherhood and wartime guilt that he planned for more than thirty years.

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Luca Guadagnino’s Cinema of Desire

The director of “Call Me by Your Name,” known for sensuality and elegance, reaches for darker material in a horror-film remake.

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8 years

Obama is the only President of my lifetime who's seemed to leave the office looser, stronger, and more honorable than when he went in.

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4 years

In this week’s @NewYorker , my unified theory of Joan Didion.

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4 years

This from "Charlotte's Web"—a kids' book!—is a one-paragraph masterclass. He builds the scene in order: from the basic first perception to sensory facts, general feeling, and finally details. He pulls out the time axis ("whenever"), then brings us back to baseline ("But mostly").

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Nathan Heller

5 years

Imagine being in the oceans in the seventeenth century and still being around the place in 2019, when it's suddenly filled with junk and industrial nets and huge propellers.

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Charles Finch

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Based on samples taken from the lens of its eye this year, this shark was alive in 1672.

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Your 2021 reminder that a lot of the powerful voices on here are people whom, if you met them in life, you’d immediately recognize as crazy.

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4 years

Today’s placement is indeed embarrassing for the paper. She’s first U.S. poet ever to win the award; it’s an item in the middle of the brief box at the foot of the front.

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Henri Cole

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If Don DeLillo had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I wonder if it would have appeared on page 21 of The New York Times.

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When I was in high school there was a required English class called Critical Thinking, the theme of which was basically How To Know When You’re Being Had Intellectually. The class was phased out at the end of the two-thousands. I think about this constantly.

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6 years

We are living inside a Pynchon novel except the names are less good.

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4 years

@winterjessica “My real education”—a drag on the Gallois—“took place in the cafés.”

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4 years

A courageous kid.

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“I’m just a regular kid, and in a short amount of time, Joe Biden made me more confident about something that’s bothered me my whole life. Joe Biden cared.” – Brayden Harrington #DemConvention

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6 years

The amount of junk I have to work through just to get a simple, reasonably elegant sentence that says what I mean never ceases to amaze me.

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3 years

Something fishy about Americans purporting to be so insanely busy, never having time for anything, then seeming to consume some fifty hours of podcasts and streaming series a week.

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At @NewYorker , I wrote up some suspicions about language and politics that have been haunting me in recent years.

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Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language

Self-defining language has grown easy to pass around but hard to translate into social results.

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4 years

This is the poem I always think of when I think of Ferlinghetti, not least because I first read it in the City Lights poetry room, whose window always somehow frames the most San Franciscan kind of San Francisco light.

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In this week's @NewYorker , I try to take a close look at the universal basic income—an idea, some say, whose time has finally come.

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Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income?

It has enthusiasts on both the left and the right. Maybe that’s the giveaway.

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10 months

I’m happy to have a couple of stories on this list, but even more I’m struck by how many of these pieces are large, involved, patient, literary in concern, and off the main path. When people with shiny smiles tell you nobody is interested in reading anymore—don’t believe them.

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Michael Luo

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It’s that time of year again. Here’s our list of the 25 most popular @NewYorker stories of the year. The list comes with my usual short reflection. My theme this year: news fatigue.

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4 years

Harvard has just announced that it will conduct the whole 2020-2021 school year online. Incidentally I wrote about online education at Harvard, in its incipient stages, for The @NewYorker years ago.

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Has the future of college moved online?

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7 years

I try to look closely at a gnarly topic we'd sooner look past—the awkward bond between gig jobs and liberal politics

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5 years

In the @NewYorker I profile the director James Gray, who went from Little Odessa to Ad Astra: a huge film about Brad Pitt in space and, oddly, Gray's most personal. It's a profile about making art in the 21st century. Reporting began two years ago on set.

The Man Who Sent Brad Pitt Into Space

“Ad Astra” is James Gray’s biggest production yet. Is it also his most personal?

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Standing tall over the harbor, her arm aloft, Lady Liberty says, Our apartments are very expensive. You probably can't afford to live here. "Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S."

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Jeff Coltin

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Mayor Adams' office is actively discouraging asylum-seekers from coming to New York City - releasing these flyers today.

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In light of current events, I have posted on Diet Coke—its source, its power, its rise, its fall.

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The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It

Thanks in part to Donald Trump, “Ahhh” has become “AHHH!,” and along the way the fortunes of America’s favorite power soda have gone flat.

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Remember when every major juncture in your life required a trip to Kinko’s?

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How long it takes ≠ how close it is.

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4 years

Reminder that rubber bullets, designed for ricochet contact, are meant to be fired at the ground, never at people.

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“I’ve just got to be out of here by three to buy stamps before the post office closes.”

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Bernie dressed like the inauguration is on his to do list today but ain’t his whole day.

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Dr. Ford's sense of civic duty can't be over-commended. She didn't have to do this. She's effectively putting herself in the line of fire to help the government realize its highest putative virtues.

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I think of what E. B. White wrote on the moon landing, one of the most enduring things written to commemorate the occasion. Here is the whole of what he wrote.

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It's truly embarrassing the degree to which my entire mood and outlook on life seems to depend on my current feelings about the state of whatever I'm writing.

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Few things more disgusting to watch in metropolitan leadership than a city smothering its public library system to get a couple of coins—less than a third of a percent of the budget—in hand today.

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New York Daily News

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NYC's public libraries will face Saturday closures, restricted weekday hours, cuts to educational programs and a freeze on new branch openings under cuts proposed by Mayor Adams.

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Nathan Heller

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On average, more Americans are apparently killed by toddlers with guns and by lawnmowers (?!) than by all terrorists combined.

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Andrew Stroehlein

8 years

How about injecting some facts into the discussion?

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Nathan Heller

3 years

A wise person once told me that when a man buys a boat it is because he is having, or wants to have, an affair, and it’s funny that the principle seems to have held even for Jeff Bezos.

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New York Magazine

3 years

Jeff Bezos's $500 million superyacht comes with its own support yacht

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Nathan Heller

4 years

If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you 3/547th times: 236/25 as much testing means 27/74 cases. Cut testing by 1/87th, and cases decrease by 𝛑/74 per cent. Not reported!

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Nathan Heller

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The worst news. I got to work with Agger at both Slate and the NYer over fifteen years. I’ve never met an editor with a better sense of how to make the old energy of print sing and speed in a digitally native form. Also—no joke—the calmest, sanest, most easygoing colleague ever.

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Michael Agger

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I was laid off by The New Yorker along with other talented people at the magazine and across Conde Nast and the industry

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Nathan Heller

6 years

Worst Dr. Bronner's label ever.

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Nathan Heller

5 years

Airport border control wanted to know what I write about, and what the word count on a New Yorker piece is. The answer was so long and qualified I was waved on.

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Nathan Heller

1 year

From a new @NewYorker issue: me on Ben Smith's book about BuzzFeed, Gawker, and the great age of traffic.

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BuzzFeed, Gawker, and the Casualties of the Traffic Wars

Ben Smith’s new book shows how the race for clicks spawned—then strangled—the new media.

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Nathan Heller

5 years

A marvellous job at The New Yorker which, for those with preëxisting knowledge and a focussed mind, insures the sort of happiness that only gods, gambolling teen-agers, and ice-cream venders know.

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Cameron Hood

5 years

Come coördinate with me as a copy editor at @newyorker dot com!

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Nathan Heller

2 years

Social media these days is like when you skim the novel but read the attendant literary theory very closely.

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Nathan Heller

4 years

Not sure which is better: the old way, where you did a typo, or the new way, where you must type the correct word three times under a full moon before autocorrect lets it pass.

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Nathan Heller

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In this week's @NewYorker , I have what seemed to me an urgent piece. It's about attention (why we're losing it, how to get it back). But it's also about coming together, a secret international order, and what happens between a person and a work of art.

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The Battle for Attention

How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

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Nathan Heller

4 years

A decade ago, when I was an even younger and callower writer, there were a bunch of magazine journalists whose sentences and paragraphs I’d study to figure out how they were put together. Ian Frazier is a writer whose sentences I find myself studying now.

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Nabokov, Steinberg, and Me

Rereading “Lolita” and reflecting on crossing paths with two heroes on Route 66.

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Nathan Heller

7 years

Here's an extraordinary essay by a dying writer, about what it feels like to be dying.

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Nathan Heller

5 years

More and more people are falling off social media, so I'm trying something. Here's a link to a newsletter with one purpose: directing my published writing into your inbox. Low volume, nothing to read but the thing itself, introduced in a couple of lines.

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Nathan Heller

8 years

For your August Friday, here is E. B. White's August, 1944, tirade against staples in all their forms.

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Nathan Heller

6 years

This is not just the best possible outcome; it is a truly fantastic outcome. Emily Greenhouse, the NYer's managing ed, is one of the smartest, wisest, and gentlest people in publishing. Actually, one of the smartest, wisest, and gentlest people, full stop.

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Nathan Heller

8 years

Frankly neither America nor its President has the stamina to withstand four years of this.

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Nathan Heller

5 years

In this week’s @NewYorker , I assess our decade of VENTURE CAPITAL. Discussed: postwar federal subsidies; whales; mail-order underwear; your annoyance at pop-up subscription windows; the golden thread that binds them.

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Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?

The industry shaped the past decade. It could destroy the next.

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