The New Yorker's blend of reporting, commentary, criticism, fiction, and cartoons has garnered 36 National Magazine Awards since its debut in 1925 - more than any other publication. Get the latest issue or subscribe and have new editions of The New Yorker delivered to My Library as soon as they are available.
The New Yorker's blend of reporting, commentary, criticism, fiction, and cartoons has garnered 36 National Magazine Awards - more than any other publication. Get the latest issue or subscribe!
The New Yorker, October 22th 2012 (Evan Osnos, Michael Specter, David Sedaris)
HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 20 mins)
By Evan Osnos, Michael Specter, David Sedaris
Narrated By Todd Mundt
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"Veep Stakes", by Steve Coll; "Germs Are Us", by Michael Specter; "Boss Rail", by Evan Osnos; "Understanding Owls", by David Sedaris; and "Playing Dead", by David Denby.
The New Yorker Festival - Richard Dawkins: Disciple of Darwin
ORIGINAL (1 hr and 22 mins)
By Richard Dawkins
Narrated By Henry Finder
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Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. His books include the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, and A Devil's Chaplain, a collection of essays. He has received the International Cosmos Prize and the Kistler Prize.
By Truman Capote, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean, and others
Narrated By Philip Bosco, Amy Irving, Alton Fitzgerald White
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One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the '20s and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery.
Jody says:
"Exceptional writing makes this a fascinating read"
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker
ABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
By Woody Allen, John Cheever, E. B. White, and others
Narrated By Tyne Daly, Timothy Jerome, Joe Morton, and others
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(45)
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(10)
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(11)
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 20 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.
Alison says:
"Great stories and readers, but technically sloppy"
By Nicholas Lemann, David Remnick, Dan Baum, and others
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"In the Ruins" by Nicholas Lemann; "Under Water" by David Remnick; "On the Roof" by Dan Baum; "Porch Duty" by Dan Baum; "Home Alone" by Christine Wiltz; "Swing Shift" by Jeffrey Toobin; "A Cloud of Dust" by John Updike; and "Partners" by David Denby.
The New Yorker, November 22nd 2010 (Laura Shapiro, Burkhard Bilger, Colm Toibin)
HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 2 mins)
By Laura Shapiro, Burkhard Bilger, Colm Toibin
Narrated By Todd Mundt
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(10)
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"Uncomfortable Climate", by Elizabeth Kolbert; "Greedy Geezers?", by James Surowiecki; "Cheesy", by John Seabrook; "The First Kitchen", by Laura Shapiro; "Nature's Spoils", by Burkhard Bilger; "Borscht", by Aleksandar Hemon; "Christmas Pudding", by Colm Toibin; and "Last Chances", by David Denby.
The New Yorker, December 22 & 29, 2008: Part 1 (Zadie Smith, Alice Munro, James Surowiecki)
NONE (1 hr and 52 mins)
By The New Yorker
Narrated By Dan Bernard, Christine Marshall
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"Appointments", by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Notorious", by Ben McGrath; "News You Can Lose", by James Surowiecki; "Some Woman", by Alice Munro; "Dead Man Laughing", by Zadie Smith, and "A Better Life", by David Denby.
The Mission: A Profile of Mitt Romney from The New Yorker
UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
By Ryan Lizza
Narrated By Todd Mundt
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(6)
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(3)
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(3)
Learn Mitt Romney's strategies for success - and who his inner consultant is - in this special presidential-candidate profile from the pages of The New Yorker. This article originally appeared in the magazine's October 29, 2007, issue.
The New Yorker, October 15th 2012 (Nadya Labi, Ariel Levy, Hendrik Hertzberg)
HIGHLIGHTS (1 hr and 59 mins)
By Nadya Labi, Ariel Levy, Hendrik Hertzberg
Narrated By Dan Bernard, Christine Marshall
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"The Ungreat Debate", by Hendrik Hertzberg; "Doppelgangers", by Andrew Marantz; "Trial and Error", by Mark Singer; "Lives of the Saints", by Ariel Levy; "The Hit Man’s Table", by Nadya Labi; and "Film Within a Film", by Anthony Lane.
The New Yorker, June 4th & 11th 2012: Part 2 (Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte)
HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 42 mins)
By Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte
Narrated By Dan Bernard, Christine Marshall
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(1)
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(1)
"Take Me Home", by Ray Bradbury; "Monstro", by Junot Diaz; "The Golden Age", by Ursula K. Le Guin; "The Republic of Empathy", by Sam Lipsyte; "The Spider Women", by Margaret Atwood; and "Black Box", by Jennifer Egan.
Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum - watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the 18th floor. Though she dreamed of becoming a writer, she never advanced at the magazine.
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 57 mins)
By David Remnick
Narrated By Mark Bramhall, Mark Deakens, Susan Denaker, and others
Whispersync for Voice-ready
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(3)
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Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker: literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M. F. K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink.
The New Yorker, September 24, 2012 (Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, Gay Talese)
HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 13 mins)
By Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, Gay Talese
Narrated By Todd Mundt
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"For Heaven’s Sake", by Hendrik Hertzberg, "The Lie Factory", by Jill Lepore, "In Plain View", by Malcolm Gladwell, and "The Crisis Manager", by Gay Talese.
The New Yorker, October 10th 2011 (Calvin Trillin, Jane Mayer, Miranda July)
HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 3 mins)
By Calvin Trillin, Jane Mayer, Miranda July
Narrated By Todd Mundt
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(5)
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(3)
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(3)
"Euro Science", by John Lanchester; "A Waste of Energy?", by James Surowiecki; "The Golden Age", by Calvin Trillin; "State for Sale", by Jane Mayer; "Free Everything", by Miranda July; "To Catch a Beat", by Jonathan Lethem; and "Primary Suspect", by Anthony Lane.
By Philip Gourevitch, Robert Stone, Neil Sheehan, and others
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(9)
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"Just Watching" by Philip Gourevitch; "Antarctica, 1958" by Robert Stone; "Vietnam, 1966" by Neil Sheehan; "New York City, 1967" by Roger Angell; "Yugoslavia, 1991" by Aleksander Hemon; "Sierra Leone, 1997" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; "Ivory Coast, 2001" by Tony D'Souza; "Iraq, 2004" by Wendell Steavenson; and "Meeting E.P." by Samuel Hynes.
