New Yorker Essentials
A hundred years of great writing, curated for The New Yorker’s centenary.
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
In the course of a ten-month investigation, thirteen women interviewed said that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them.
Letter from a Region in My Mind
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
Silent Spring—I
If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.