Twenty New Yorker Articles from the Past Two Years
What sticks with me from reading The New Yorker in 2024 and 2025
These are twenty items from The New Yorker that stay with me.
If you give them a try, they will stay with you, too.
Skin in the Game, by Rebecca Giggs
Breeding custom ball pythons
February 26, 2024
Feast Mode, by Lauren Collins
The magic of Les Grands Buffets
April 8, 2024
Screen Grab, by Jia Tolentino
The world of CoComelon and the capturing of children’s attention
June 17, 2024
Ghosts on the Water, by Paige Williams
The business of catching glass eels
June 24, 2024
Be Her Guest, by Molly Fisher
Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa
September 9, 2024
Sniff Test, by Rachel Syme
French Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian
September 23, 2024
Stirring Stuff, by Anthony Lane
The enticements of risotto
December 23, 2024
Sisterhood, by Lawrence Wright
An order of nuns is befriending women on death row
February 17, 2025
Dreams and Nightmares, by Nick Paumgarten
A fan’s notes on Super Bowl week.
March 10, 2025
The Book of Ruth, by Jill Lepore
How an American radical reinvented backyard gardening
March 24, 2025
Bagels, Ranked, by Josh Lieb
A definitive ranking of New York’s bagels.
April 21, 2025
Schmear Campaign, by Lauren Collins
The fate of Nutella’s Algerian competitor.
June 9, 2025
Vaunted, by Zach Helfand
On fact checking for the magazine
September 1, 2025
Critical Distance, by Richard Renaldi
New Yorker writers off the page
September 1, 2025
Takes: “Old Eight Eighty”, by David Grann
St. Clair’s three-part series on a counterfeiter of one-dollar bills (1949)
October 19, 2025
Go Big and Go Home, by Molly Fischer
Costco’s golden age
October 27, 2025
Phantasia, by Larissa MacFarquhar
Probing the mysteries of mental visualization.
November 3, 2025
A Further Shore, by Tatiana Schlossberg
Reflections on a terminal diagnosis.
November 22, 2025
All Rise, by Hannah Goldfield
New York’s golden age of bread.
December 15, 2025
Centenarian, by Calvin Tomkins
A hundredth-birthday diary.
December 22, 2025
Reader Icon by Zach Bogart from The Noun Project