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Theories of Everything

Roz Chast

The New Yorker cartoonist who can explain phenomena such as “The Museum of One’s Kitchen” (including the Refrigerator Door Gallery…

The Idiot: A Novel

Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman, a New Yorker staff writer and author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who…

Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street

Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe

On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on Mutanabbi Street, the lively center of Baghdad bookselling, filled with bookstores,…

An Evening with Poet Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell

In the 2003 National Book Award judges’ citation for his New Selected Poems, Kinnell was called “America’s preeminent visionary,” with…

A Free Life

Ha Jin

In this new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting, a Chinese writer opens a restaurant in Atlanta…

A Life Decoded

Dr. Craig Venter

A riveting account of the unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome by the scientist who went on…

Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place

Will Self

Evoking places as far flung as Iowa and India, Self-cultural provocateur, writer and long distance walker-teamed with legendary Gonzo illustrator…

The Principles of Uncertainty: Illustrations, Parables, Films

Maira Kalman

The illustrator, author and designer-known for her many New Yorker covers (including the famous map of “Newyorkistan”) – contends with…

The Conscience of a Liberal

Paul Krugman

Today’s most widely read economist weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and…

The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

The New Yorker’s brilliant music critic takes us inside the labyrinth of modern sound, from Vienna before World War I…