In the past couple of weeks, Ali Soufan, the former F.B.I. agent who led the investigation into the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and into events surrounding 9/11—and was the subject of a 2006 New Yorker piece by Lawrence...

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On October 24th last year, as the Occupy movement spread from Zuccotti Park, across the United States, and hopped the pond to London, the Telegraph ran an article under the headline: “Only one in 10 St Paul’s protesters stay...

Carlos Fuentes, among the most prominent of Mexico's writers and intellectuals, died on Tuesday in Mexico City at the age of 83. The death was confirmed on the website of El Universal, the Mex

As Cate Edwards got ready to testify in defense of her father this week, one could easily wonder why anyone should care about the John Edwards trial. Following the proceedings so far has been like leafing through a catalogue...

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The big news at The New Yorker today is the launch of our new literary blog, Page-Turner—take a look and be sure to bookmark it! In her post introducing the new blog, Sasha Weiss writes about how one often...

It’s Facebook I.P.O. week, which is as good a time as any to revisit the company’s cast of founding characters. Mark Zuckerberg, the wunderkind programmer, co-founder, and C.E.O. turned twenty-eight yesterday. Chris Hughes, his roommate and Facebook’s fir st spokesman,...

The first sporting event that I remember caring about was the 1982 Boston Marathon. I was six years old, which is an age when most sports make no sense: the players wear masks, are freakishly tall, or contend with...

Page-Turner, The New Yorker’s new literary blog, launches today with the promise that it will feature “criticism, contention, and conversation about the most important books of the moment.” As a service to Page-Turner’s writers and editors, we’ve delved i nto...