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Who stole my football?
ON July 19, World Cup 2026 will be won and lost. One team will lift the trophy. The other will spend years wondering where and how the wheels came off.
For the fans, there are the usual takeaways: heroes and villains, tactical masterstroke...
Craft Essay #8: The art of the profile
Ricky Jay’s most cited book
LATE one night some years ago, in the bar of a Chicago hotel, Ricky Jay was doing card tricks for a small audience that included the playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher.
For twenty m...
Interstitial essay: The one who doesn't know
Image courtesy Maria Medem/The New Yorker
EVER since The New Yorker staff writer Mark Singer passed away on June 19, I have been re-reading the profiles he wrote, with a view to an essay on profile-writing itself.
It’s been a long time c...
The Year the Rain Didn't Come
When S. Vishwanath sat with us in the first season of From the Marginlands, he did something rare for a man who has spent thirty-five years monitoring crises for a living: he gave us hope.
Bengaluru’s water problem, he told us then, was no...
The Air, The Water, The Walls
GO to a village in Bihar where kala-azar is common, and the disease seems to be everywhere. In the blood, in the fevers, in the spleens swollen hard under children’s ribs. But Dr Soumya Swaminathan learned to look at the walls.
The sand fl...
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