Who are the 100 best journalists of the past 100 years?
NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute sought to answer this question, and a host of familiar names appear: Hannah Arendt, Carl Bernstein, James Baldwin, Robert Capa, Truman Capote.
What’s even better isThe New Yorker has pulled a few of their featured writers’ pieces from the archives. (Unfortunately, just for subscribers.)
There are enough longreads here to fill a weekend. Or two.
Hannah Arendt: “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” February 16, 1963.
James Baldwin: “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” November 17, 1962.
Meyer Berger: “The Tombs,” August 30, 1941.
William F. Buckley, Jr.: “My Right-Wing Conspiracy,” October 21, 1996.
Truman Capote: “The Duke in His Domain,” November 9, 1957.
Rachel Carson: “Silent Spring,” June 16, 1962.
Nora Ephron: “Serial Monogamy,” February 13, 2006.
Dexter Filkins: “The Afghan Bank Heist,” February 14, 2011.
Frances Fitzgerald: “Vietnam,” July 1, 1972.
Philip Gourevitch: “After the Genocide,” December 18, 1995.
Nat Hentoff: “The Constitutionalist,” March 12, 1990.
John Hersey: “Hiroshima,” August 31, 1946.
Seymour Hersh: “Torture at Abu Ghraib,” May 10, 2004.
Jane Kramer: “The Politics of Memory,” August 14, 1995.
Anthony Lewis: “The Sullivan,” November 5, 1984.
A. J. Liebling: “Memoirs of a Feeder in France,” April 11, 1959.
Jane Mayer: “The Predator War,” October 26, 2009.
Mary McCarthy : “The Revel of the Earth,” July 7, 1956.
John McPhee: “A Sense of Where You Are,” January 23, 1965.
H. L. Mencken: “Giants at the Bar,” May 24, 1941.
Joseph Mitchell: “Professor Sea Gull,” December 12, 1942.
David Remnick: “American Hunger,” October 12, 1998.
William Shawn: “Comment,” September 23, 1972.
E. B. White: “Letter from the East,” February 20, 1960.
“The bottom line is that the ACA approach is one where we redistribute towards those in need, but within a budget conscious approach that makes individuals who can afford care pay for it.”
The Most Popular FSG Stories of the Past Four Weeks
We post hundreds of links on @fsg_books each month. Here’s a look at which ones received the most recent attention.
- Toni Morrison Cancels Her Memoir, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
- “How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?,” The Atlantic
- “Recovering Lolita,” Imprint
- “Let’s Welcome Alex Star to FSG,” The FSG Tumblr
- “Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Richard Ford, Dennis Cooper, Peter Carey: Freshly Pressed,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine
- “17 Successful Adaptations of ‘Unadaptable’ Books,” The A.V. Club
- “My Oscar Picks: Judy Blume,” The New York Times
- “Little, Brown to Publish J. K. Rowling’s First Novel for Adults,” BookTrade.info
