The New Yorkerest - Ten Best New Yorker Pieces from 2009

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Dec 23rd, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

The New Yorkerest project is here to help you get a head start on your New Year’s resolution to eliminate that bedside stack of New Yorker magazines. Think of all the things you could do with the extra space on your bedside table.

It’s no easy task to narrow an already-crowded roster of amazing New Yorker articles from this year. Alas, a top-47 list would prove unwieldy, so without further ado here are my ten favorite pieces from 2009 (in publication order) Continue reading →

Hearth Surgery: A stove to transform the developing world.

Dec 21st, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

December 21 & 28, 2009

Annals of Innovation
Hearth Surgery
A stove to transform the developing world.
by Burkhard Bilger

Testing, Testing: The complex battle to cut health-care costs.

Dec 14th, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

December 14, 2009

Testing, Testing
The complex battle to cut health-care costs.
by Atul Gawande

This was a wonderful issue overall and if you have the time, I also recommend reading The Celebrity Defense: Sex, justice, and Roman Polanski. by Jeffrey Toobin, The Most Failed State: Somalia’s new President. by Jon Lee Anderson, and “All That” by David Foster Wallace.

Portraits of Power: Leaders of the world.

Dec 7th, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

December 7, 2009

Portraits of Power
Leaders of the world.
by Platon

Politics of Death: From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.

Nov 30th, 2009

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November 30, 2009

The Politics of Death
From Karen Ann Quinlan to death panels.
by Jill Lepore

Posted in: A Critic at Large.
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The Taste Makers: Inside the labs that flavor your food.

Nov 23rd, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

November 23. 2009

Annals of Science
The Taste Makers
Inside the labs that flavor your food.
by Raffi Khatchadourian

If you have some extra time, Pilgrim’s Progress: The challenges of Thanksgiving abroad. by Jane Kramer and Reading into recipes. by Adam Gopnik are both wonderful pieces.

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Tagged: the new yorker

The Pharaoh: The man who controls Egyptology.

Nov 16th, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

November 16. 2009

Letter from Cairo
The Pharaoh
The man who controls Egyptology.
by Ian Parker

Premium Harmony

Nov 9th, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

November 9, 2009

“Premium Harmony”
by Stephen King

The Good Cook: A starving patriot in North Korea.

Nov 2nd, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

November 2, 2009

The Good Cook
A starving patriot in North Korea.
by Barbara Demick

If you want a second piece to read, While the Women are Sleeping by Javier Marías is beautifully haunting (and hauntingly beautiful).

Man of Extremes: James Cameron and “Avatar.”

Oct 26th, 2009

by New Yorkerest.

October 26, 2009

Man of Extremes
James Cameron and “Avatar.”
by Dana Goodyear

This is a great issue overall and, if you have the time, I recommend also reading Chinese Barbizon: A factory town’s “art village.” by Peter Hessler and the simply fantastic “Procedure in Plain Air” by Jonathan Lethem.