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Editor of The New Yorker and former Washington Post reporter David Remnick suggested Monday night that the Senate gun control legislation would have made the Boston Marathon bombing "a hell of a lot more difficult to pull off." "I think a domestic ...

:54 AM PDT post a comment View Discussion What a wonderful character insight it is to discover that David Remnick, the same biographer capable of summoning all kinds of eloquence and empathy for Boston's accused mass-murdering terrorists, is ...

This week in the magazine, novelist Hisham Matar writes about his return to Libya after decades of exile. Here, David Remnick talks with Matar about leaving Libya as a boy, his father's imprisonment anddisappearance,and returning to Libya in the ...

How do you get from North Sydney Girls' High School to Managing Editor of The New Yorker in less than a decade? Amelia Lester is one of those annoying people who was already terribly successful at an age when most of us were still wondering what to ...

is a formidable organization. Founded by teacher-turned-writer/editor Dan Stone, the year-old, print, online and live magazine exists at the intersection between rock music and literature. It's about time that someone came up with intelligent ...

More than 10 million people visited the site in April By The New Yorker has been putting a premium on Web content in the past year, launching new verticals like Books and Humor and features like the Archives blog and daily cartoons and publishing ...

America has grown up. Public reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings and the identity of the perpetrators reveals a very different nation from the one reflected in the traumatized and occasionally hysterical responses to 9/11. The magnitude of the ...

Peter Hessler's Strange Stones (right) is his record of his "amazing" experiences in fast-changing societies like China. Photo by Darryl Kennedy / Provided to China Daily On a visa run to Hong Kong in 1999, Peter Hessler made a stop in a tiny ...

Clinton accepts Distinguished Leadership Award and Lauds liberal global order Steve Watson Bilderberg luminary Henry Kissinger joked at an elite dinner party in Washington DC last night that Hillary Clinton should run for president in 2016. At least ...