Zach Bogart

The New Yorker, 2024 ​

Here are some selected articles I enjoyed from The New Yorker this year.

Winter ​

Winter Covers

  • Fresh Direct by Hanna Goldfield
    • On passion fruit
  • Detail Oriented by Carrie Battan
    • Profile of the comedian Jacqueline Novak and her new Netflix special "Get on Your Knees"
  • Cave Woman by D. T. Max
    • Beatriz Flamini living alone in a cave for over five hundred days
  • Burn Notice by Elizabeth Kolbert
    • Wildfires and the policies that help fuel them
  • The Art of Change by Calvin Tomkins
    • Thelma Golden and the Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Pucker Up by Hannah Goldfield
    • Fancy vinegars
  • Skin in the Game by Rebecca Giggs
    • Breeding custom ball pythons
  • Starburst by Kathryn Schulz
    • The global threat of solar storms
  • The Last Campaign by Evan Osnos
    • President Joe Biden's campaign
  • Role Play by Ronan Farrow
    • Profile of drag star RuPaul
  • Bid for the Stars by Rachel Monroe
    • The business of celebrity memorabilia
  • City of Thieves by Paige Williams
    • Battling organized retail theft in Los Angeles
  • A Class of Her Own by Molly Fischer
    • Quinta Brunson, creator of "Abbott Elementary"
  • You Can’t Sit with Us by Hannah Goldfield
    • Clubby restaurants in New York

Spring ​

Winter Covers

  • Time's Up by Sam Knight
    • The conservative party in the U.K.
  • Water World by Kyle Chayka
    • Koen Olthuis's Waterstudio, which focuses on floating buildings
  • Crazy-Making by Leslie Jamison
    • The psychology and prevalence of gaslighting
  • Feast Mode by Lauren Collins
    • The magic of Les Grands Buffets
  • The Amazon Patrol by Jon Lee Anderson
    • Special-forces protecting the Amazon rain forest
  • Trash Trash Revolution by Eric Lach
    • The mammoth task of cleaning up New York City's streets
  • The Modern Pulpit by Amanda Petrusich
    • The evolution of singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers
  • Flight of Fancy by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
    • The progress of flying cars, including a test drive by the author
  • Get Real by Anna Wiener
    • The wide-reaching applications of video-game engines
  • When Babies Rule the Dinner Table by Alexandra Schwartz, Photography by Olaf Blecker
    • Modern takes on feeding babies
    • Embracing the mess
  • Design for Living by D. T. Max
    • Converting office buildings into attractive apartments
  • The Battle for Attention by Nathan Heller
    • Attention in a modern age, and the Order of the Third Bird
  • New Tricks by Nick Paumgarten
    • Bill Berloni's work as an animal trainer for film
  • Read the Label by Manvir Singh
    • The melding of diagnostic labels and personal identities
  • A Campus in Crisis, Photography by Nina Berman
    • Portfolio of the campus protests at Columbia
  • "We're Not So Different, You and I" by Simon Rich
    • The challenges of being a supervillain
  • The Right to Hug by Sarah Stillman
    • The human effects of replacing in-person jail visits with video calls
  • Tabula Rasa by John McPhee
    • Wordle, Knopf, and more
  • The Instigator
    • Profile of Miranda July, with her upcoming novel "All Fours"
  • Off the Leash by Kathryn Schulz
    • The wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show
  • Abridged Too Far by Anthony Lane
    • Phone apps like Blinkist, which consolidate books into mini digests
  • Castoffs by Emily Nussbaum
    • Cruelties for reality-TV contestants on "Love is Blind"
  • You Make Me Sick by Sharon Lerner
    • 3M's concealment of forever chemicals
  • The Stasi Files by Burkhard Bilger
    • The decades-long process to manually sift through records from East Germany's secret police
  • Are We Doomed? by Rivka Galchen
    • The field of existential risk
  • The Long Ride by William Finnegan
    • Jock Sutherland's life surfing, and his new phase
  • Screen Grab by Jia Tolentino
    • The world of CoComelon and the capturing of children's attention
  • His Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Ian Parker
    • Ye (formerly Kanye West) and his radical deconstruction of a Tadao Ando house
  • A Semblance of Peace by Masha Gessen
    • Exploration of Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom, a community of Jewish Israeli and Palestinian Israeli families.
  • Move in for the Cull by Elizabeth Kolbert
    • Practice of culling invasive animals
  • In Search of Lost Time by Jay Fielden
    • John Lennon's Patek Philippe watch
  • Small Wonder by Dhruv Khullar
    • Nanotechnology
  • Ghosts on the Water by Paige Williams
    • The business of catching glass eels
  • Offline by Amanda Petrusich
    • The path of artist Lizzy McAlpine, with a recent release of her album "Older"

Summer Developing ​

Fall Developing ​

  • The Chit-Chatbot by Jill Lepore
    • OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode and the history of computerized voice
  • Doom Scrolling by Andrew Solomon
    • Teen-suicide rates and social media
    • Giving kids chocolate bourbon in a twenty-four-hour casino.
  • Well, Well, Well by Hannah Goldfield
    • Southern California's obsession with wellness

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