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David Remnick

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Onward and Upward

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 10, 2025
The Gospel According to Mavis Staples

A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on June 24, 2022
Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

by Anita Hill, Jane Mayer, David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 8, 2022
How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 19, 2022
Soul Survivor

The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin.

by David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 4, 2016

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‘Two girls at Bamberg led to the stake, 1550’; etching by Jan Luyken from the 1685 edition of Thieleman van Braght’s The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians.

Dispirited Away

The rise and fall of an evangelical church, founded with progressive intentions and undone by dissension and bad faith.

by Caroline Fraser via New York Review of Books on December 26, 2024

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Confession of a Feminist I

A serialized biography of Jane Grant (1892-1972), first woman reporter at The New York Times and co-founder of The New Yorker.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on March 20, 2021

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.

by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

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