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Publication: The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry, and fiction.
The New Yorker is available online and is published weekly.
A SUDDEN IllNESS
How my life changed
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- Essays
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- Author
- Laura Hillenbrand
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Jennifer McKnight
- Length
- 42 minutes
AFTER GOD
Nietzsche believed in limitless possibility. The world knew better.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 38 minutes
AMERICAN DIVA
The world’s most beautiful voice belongs to a nice girl from Rochester.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Charles Michener
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 35 minutes
ART FOR EVERYBODY
How Thomas Kinkade turned painting into big business.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Susan Orlean
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 27 minutes
AS GOOD AS DEAD
Is there really such a thing as brain death?
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- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Greenberg
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Linda Wilkins
- Length
- 33 minutes
BAD COPS
Rafael Perez's testimony on police misconduct ignited the biggest scandal in the history of the L.A.P.D. Is it the real story?
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- Politics and Public Issues
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- Author
- Peter J. Boyer
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 88 minutes
BUMPING INTO MR. RAVIOLI
A theory of busyness, and its hero.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Adam Gopnik
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Zinn
- Length
- 20 minutes
COMPLICATIONS
The author thought that getting pregnant would be the hard part.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Wesserstein
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Susan Valeri
- Length
- 45 minutes
Countdown to a Baby
How hard could it be to get pregnant?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Michael Ryan
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Beth Torrey
- Length
- 42 minutes
DEATH OF A CHEF
The changing landscape of French cooking.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- William Echikson
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Clelia Steele
- Length
- 31 minutes
HIGH STYLE
Writing under the influence.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- John Lanchester
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 18 minutes
HOLDEN AT FIFTY.
The Catcher in the Rye' and what it spawne
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Louis Menand
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 28 minutes
HONEST, DECENT, WRONG
The invention of George Orwell.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Louis Menand
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Dean Melmoth
- Length
- 42 minutes
IF YOU ASK ME
Etiquette through the ages.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Judith Thurman
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Kathleen Starling
- Length
- 21 minutes
LOCAL BOUNTY
Grandfather knows best
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Calvin Trillin
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Linda Wilkins
- Length
- 18 minutes
MEET THE SHAGGS
Three girls from New Hampshire who became one of music's strangest legends.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Susan Orlean
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Scott Schuer
- Length
- 30 minutes
MOODY TOONS
The king of the Cartoon Network
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Alec Wilkinson
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 29 minutes
MOTHER COURAGE
Kids, careers and culture
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 17 minutes
OAKDALE DAYS
Why do so many terrible things keep happening to one town?
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- Regional and Travel
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- Author
- Larissa MacFarquhar
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Jennette McDonough
- Length
- 36 minutes
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ON TRIAL
In 1772, a slave girl had to prove she was a poet. She's had to do so ever since.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Louis Gates, Jr.
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Ann Moln
- Length
- 29 minutes
SWINGING
Golf, it turns out, is a very risky business
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- David Owen
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Robert Miller
- Length
- 22 minutes
THAT SINKING FEELING
Doesn't' Venice want to be saved?
- Topic
- Regional and Travel
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- Author
- Michael Specter
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Cheryl Schuttee
- Length
- 19 minutes
THAT SUNDAY
It was just one afternoon in a jazz club forty years ago.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Adam Gopnik
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Richard Wilson
- Length
- 17 minutes
THE BELL CURVE
What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?
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- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Atul Gawande
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Erdody
- Length
- 53 minutes
THE BEST PRETENDER
Jim Carrey calms down.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Franklin
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 41 minutes
THE BETTER BOSS
How Marshall Goldsmith reforms executives
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Larissa MacFarquhar
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 48 minutes
THE DEATH BEAT
What happens when a bunch of obituary writers get together.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Mark Singer
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Gail Farley
- Length
- 26 minutes
THE DOOMSDAY CLICK
How easily could a hacker bring the world to a standstill?
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- Science and Technology
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- Author
- Michael Specter
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Zinn
- Length
- 34 minutes
THE EMPEROR OF ICE
How a bag of supermarket ice cubes launched a plan to dominate an industry.
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Ian Parker
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Erdody
- Length
- 29 minutes
THE HIGH MARK
Mountains, grizzlies, and the smell of exhaust in the morning.
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- Regional and Travel
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- Author
- Mark Singer
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 25 minutes
THE INN CROWD
The food has been rated the best in the country, and the rooms are sublime. How did such a nice place make so many enemies?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Horwitz
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Clelia Steele
- Length
- 28 minutes
THE LEARNING CURVE
Like everyone else surgeons need practice. That's where you come in.
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- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Atul Gawande
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Beth Carroll
- Length
- 54 minutes
THE LONG MARCH
What the civil-rights movement looked like when it was still happening.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Nicholas Lemann
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 34 minutes
THE LONG RIDE
How did Lance Armstrong manage the greatest comeback in sports history?
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Michael Specter
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Ann Moln
- Length
- 57 minutes
THE MONOPOLIST
It took Lew Wasserman just twenty years to transform an entire industry.
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Connie Bruck
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Chris Purchis
- Length
- 111 minutes
THE PERMANENT SCARS OF IRAQ
Robert Shrode can't sleep
- Topic
- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Sara Corbett
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Robert Miller
- Length
- 50 minutes
THE PHONE GUY
How Nokia designed what may be the best-selling cellular products on earth.
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Michael Specter
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 24 minutes
THE PICTURE PROBLEM
Mammography, air power, and the limits of looking
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- Science and Technology
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Erdody
- Length
- 42 minutes
THE PRISONER
On August 20th, 2003, Kathy Boudin, a former member of the Weather Underground who was sentenced to twenty years to life in prison for her part in an armored-car robbery in which three men were killed, was granted parole, over the protests of the victims' families.
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- Politics and Public Issues
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- Author
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 56 minutes
THE RED AND THE WHITE
Is it possible that wine connoisseurs can't tell them apart?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Calvin Trillin
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Beth Carroll
- Length
- 19 minutes
THE RELUCTANT MEMORIALIST
Maya Lin tried to put the business of monuments behind her. Then came September 11th.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Louis Menand
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Beth Torrey
- Length
- 38 minutes
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAPER
Looking for method in the mess
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Kathleen Starling
- Length
- 24 minutes
THE TELEVISIONARY
Big business and the myth of the lone inventor
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 26 minutes
THE UNLOVED AMERICAN
Two centuries of alienating Europe.
- Topic
- World Issues
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- Author
- Simon Schama
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 27 minutes
THE WANDERER
Decades of Dylanology have missed the point'the music is the message.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Alex Ross
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 49 minutes
THE WHITE DRESS
What should nurses wear?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- John Seabrook
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 25 minutes
TRENCHCOAT ROBBERS
After fifteen years and twenty-seven banks, they finally tripped up
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 30 minutes
TWIN PEAKS
Hermann Maier came back after a near-fatal crash; Bode Miller was waiting.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Burkhard Bilger
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Desmond Ryan
- Length
- 54 minutes
VICTORIA'S SECRET
A look at one of Prada's top saleswomen.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Mimi Swartz
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 27 minutes
WAITING FOR GHOSTS
The many careers of Joe Nickell, paranormal investigator
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Burkhard Bilger
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Chris Purchis
- Length
- 36 minutes
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
Terror is Stephan King's medium, but it's not the only reason he's so popular'and so frightening.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Mark Singer
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Chris Purchis
- Length
- 57 minutes
WHAT'S SO FUNNY?
A scientific attempt to discover why we laugh.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Tad Friend
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 45 minutes
WHEN GOOD DOCTORS GO BAD
What happens when trusted physicians begin to hurt their patients?
- Topic
- Health and Medicine
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- Author
- Atul Gawande
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Gail Farley
- Length
- 43 minutes
WHO SPEAKS FOR THE LAZY
Skirting success is harder than it looks
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Arthur Crystal
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Gail Farley
- Length
- 22 minutes
GETTING OVER IT
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit put the war behind him. Why can't we?
- Topic
- Politics and Public Issues
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 25 minutes
HELPING HANDS
How foreign aid could benefit everybody.
- Topic
- World Issues
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- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Richard Wilson
- Length
- 27 minutes
HOW TO PREDICT EVERYTHING
Has the physicist J. Richard Gott really found a way?
- Topic
- Science and Technology
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- Author
- Ferris
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Richard Wilson
- Length
- minutes
NAKED ON THE GRASS
The author recalls his mother's deathbed confession
- Topic
- Essays
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- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Jennifer McKnight
- Length
- 48 minutes
PERSONALITY PLUS
Employers love personality tests. But what do they really reveal?
- Topic
- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry Erdody
- Length
- 36 minutes
THE SLOW LANE
Can anyone solve the problem of traffic?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- John Seabrook
- Publication
- The New Yorker
- Read by
- Richard Wilson
- Length
- 46 minutes
UNDER ONE ROOF
The death and life of New York department store.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Adam Gopnik
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Length
- 22 minutes
WHITE MAN AT THE DOOR
One man's mission to record the "dirty blues"--before everyone dies.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Roth
- Length
- 45 minutes
BASIN AND RANGE
From the ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD series about geology and how it reveals the earth's past history.
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- Science and Technology
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- Author
- John McPhee
- Publication
- 1990 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 43 minutes
THE SILVER THIEF
The story of a burglar who was too good for his own good.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Stephen J. Dubner
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 45 minutes
BIG SUGAR--Part One
The author graphically describes cane growing, burning and harvesting, which he declares to be the most dangerous work in the U.S., and forcefully portrays the cutters' seven-day weeks of filthy and exhausting labor, ill-paid on a piece-rate basis.
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- World Issues
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- Author
- Alec Wilkinson
- Publication
- 1989 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 104 minutes
BIG SUGAR--Part Two
Equally miserable is the existence for most in dirty, crowded camp barracks, with little recreation provided and only shoddy goods available to buy. Poor and uneducated, they are exploited by the U.S. Sugar Corporation and other large companies
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- World Issues
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- Author
- Alec Wilkinson
- Publication
- 1989 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 102 minutes
FUHRER--Part One
Part 1 of Janet Flanner's classic three-part profile of Hitler, which appeared in the New Yorker in early 1936.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Janet Flanner
- Publication
- 1936 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 20 minutes
FUHRER--Part Two
Part 2 of Janet Flanner's classic three-part profile of Hitler, which appeared in the New Yorker in early 1936.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Janet Flanner
- Publication
- 1936 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Length
- 18 minutes
BECOMING MARY POPPINS
P.L. Travers, Walt Disney, and the making of a myth.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Caitlin Flanagan
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Matthew Phenix
- Length
- 32 minutes
MEN OF IRELAND
A lifetime after leaving, a man returns to his home village to settle an account with the old priest.
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- Fiction
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- Author
- William Trevor
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 29 minutes
GROSS POINTS
Is the blockbuster the end of cinema?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Louis Menard
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Zinn
- Length
- 30 minutes
FUHRER--Part Three
Part 3 of Janet Flanner's classic three-part profile of Hitler, which appeared in the New Yorker in early 1936.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Janet Flanner
- Publication
- 1936 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 20 minutes
SUMMER CROSSING
Truman Capote at thirty-one in 1955, twelve years after writing his newly discovered first novel, "Summer Crossing."
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- Fiction
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- Author
- Truman Capote
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Matthew Phenix
- Length
- 35 minutes
A REAL LIFE
A man came along and fell in love with Dory Beck. At least, he wanted to marry her.
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- Fiction
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- Author
- Alice Munroe
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Kathleen Sullivan
- Length
- 66 minutes
ALFRED CHESTER'S WIG
The retirement of an old friend elicits thoughts.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Cynthia Ozick
- Publication
- 1993 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 100 minutes
BACK TO THE BASEMENT
Ping-Pong: It's a whole new ball game
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Franklin
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Adele Roy
- Length
- 34 minutes
BIDDING WAR
How an antitrust investigation into Christie's and Sotheby's became a race to see who could betray whom.
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- Business and Economics
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- Author
- James B. Stewart
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 74 minutes
CARD TRICKS
Why laughter isn't enough for Hallmark.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- David Owen
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Length
- 31 minutes
COFFEE CLASH
A war of the beans?
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- Author
- Michael Specter
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Deborah Fisch
- Length
- 11 minutes
DRY MARTINI
The ultimate cocktail, down cold
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Roger Angell
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Jennifer McKnight
- Length
- 14 minutes
IN DEFIANCE OF CLUB RULES
A short story by Tim Parks, who was born in Manchester in 1954. Tim Parks grew up in London, studied at Cambridge and Harvard and now resides in Italy.
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- Fiction
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- Author
- Tim Parks
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 25 minutes
JEALOUS HUSBAND RETURNS IN FORM OF PARROT
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- Fiction
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- Author
- Robert Olen Butler
- Publication
- 1996 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Jason Starling
- Length
- 18 minutes
KISS
Lipstick, cigarettes, and the taste of candy
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- Fiction
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- Author
- Tobias Wolf
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Kathleen Starling
- Length
- 36 minutes
LITTLE PEOPLE
When did we start treating children like children?
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Joan Acocella
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 26 minutes
LUNCH AT MARTHA'S
Problems with the perfect life.
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- Popular Culture
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- Author
- Jeffrey Toobin
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Linda Wilkins
- Length
- 33 minutes
NOTES ON MY MOTHER
Until the end, my mother never discussed her way of being.
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- Essays
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- Author
- Hilton Als
- Publication
- 1997 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Linda Wilkins
- Length
- 23 minutes
ON IMPACT
When my wife and I are at our house in Western Maine, I walk four miles everyday.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Stephen King
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Ann Moln
- Length
- 33 minutes
SILK PARACHUTE
When your mother is 99 years old, you have so many memories of her.
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- Essays
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- Author
- John McPhee
- Publication
- 1997 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Beth Carroll
- Length
- 6 minutes
THE COUNTER-TERRORIST
John O'Neill was an F.B.I.agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda.
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- Lawrence Wright
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Mary Beth Carroll
- Length
- 53 minutes
THE CANDY MAN
Why children love Roald Dahl's stories - and many adults don't.
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Author
- Margaret Talbot
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Katie Walter
- Length
- 39 minutes
THE PEOPLE'S PREACHER
Al Sharpton would rather walk naked than wear your wretched dress.
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- Politics and Public Issues
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- Author
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Publication
- 2002 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Michael Emlaw
- Length
- 65 minutes
THE SHIP THAT VANISHED
Did the crew of the Fantome ever stand a chance?
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- History and Biography
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- Author
- John Vaillant
- Publication
- 1999 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Paulette Banks
- Length
- 41 minutes
WITNESS
They are all wheelchair days.
- Topic
- Essays
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Andre Dubus
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Gail Farley
- Length
- 21 minutes
I KNEW SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL
My mother in a dream.
- Topic
- Essays
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Dagoberto Gilb
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Matthew Phenix
- Length
- 24 minutes
MOTHER OF INVENTION
Elsa Schiaparelli's seminal clothes are on display in Philadelphia.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Judith Thurman
- Publication
- 2003 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 22 minutes
TAKING HUMOR SERIOUSLY
George Meyer, the funniest man behind the funniest show on T.V.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- David Owen
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 47 minutes
THE CITY SHAPER
Robert Caro tells how he came to write his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974)" about "the man who changed the city forever, often at a terrible cost.
- Topic
- History and Biography
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Robert Caro
- Publication
- 1998 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 89 minutes
THE GRAVEL PAGE: Part 1
Introduction: The most frightening crimes have no witnesses except the ground on which they are committed. And forensic geologists illuminate cases that would impress Sherlock Holmes, the science's first practitioner.
- Topic
- Science and Technology
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- John McPhee
- Publication
- 1996 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 30 minutes
CALLIOPE TIMES
A life in the circus
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Edward Hoagland
- Publication
- 2000 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Zinn
- Length
- 27 minutes
DISAPPEARING DISHES
How Diana Kennedy is rescuing everyday food
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Alma Guillermoprieto
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 17 minutes
ALWAYS WITH US
Jeffrey Sach's plan to eradicate world poverty
- Topic
- World Issues
- Play
- in
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- Author
- John Cassidy
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 32 minutes
THE ANTI-NETWORK
Brian Lamb and C-SPAN let the news reveal itself--without staging, stars, or sound bites.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
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- Author
- James Lardner
- Publication
- 1994 The New Yorker
- Read by
- David Henry
- Length
- 42 minutes
LARGO NIGHTS
A club where the music is free-spirited, and the patrons better behave.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Dana Goodyear
- Publication
- 2008 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Laurel Langs
- Length
- 22 minutes
LETTING GO
Smoking and non-smoking.
- Topic
- Reflections
- Play
- in
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- Author
- David Sedaris
- Publication
- 2008 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Laurel Langs
- Length
- 18 minutes
COWBOY
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Thomas McGuane
- Publication
- 2005 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 26 minutes
ORIGAMI LAB
Why a physicist dropped everything for paper folding.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Susan Orlean
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 28 minutes
THE ISLANDERS
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Andrew Sean Greer
- Publication
- 2004 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 33 minutes
THE JEFFERSON BOTTLES
How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Patrick Radden Keefe
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 54 minutes
THE DARKENING SEA
What carbon emissions are doing to the ocean.
- Topic
- Science and Technology
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 45 minutes
TALKING TURKEY
The man who communicates with gobblers.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Bill Buford
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 32 minutes
WHOSE LITTLE GIRL ARE YOU?
A childhood in another time.
- Topic
- Memoir
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Paula Fox
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 42 minutes
TV DINNERS
The rise of food television.
- Topic
- Food
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Bill Buford
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 30 minutes
THE TROJAN SOFA
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Bernard MacLaverty
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 38 minutes
THE WIVES OF OTHERS
Are stay-at-home mothers putting themselves - and feminism - at risk?
- Topic
- Book Reviews
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Rebecca Mead
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 11 minutes
PRINCE OF ST. GERMAIN
How Boris Vian brought cool to Paris.
- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Dan Halpern
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 17 minutes
PAINTING BY NUMBERS
Gustave Courbet and the making of a master.
- Topic
- Book Reviews
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Peter Schjeldahl
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 20 minutes
HEY, JOE
A day in the life of Joe, a New Orleans teenager.
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- Ben Neihart
- Publication
- 1994 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 16 minutes
THE FIRST SENSE
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
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- Author
- Nadine Gordimer
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 22 minutes
GOOD PEOPLE
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 20 minutes
VISUAL TROPHIES
The art of snapshots.
- Topic
- Popular Culture
- Play
- in
MP3
- Author
- John Updike
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Louis Dickenson
- Length
- 17 minutes