Midpoint in the year – as good a time as any to pause, sift
through the many reading pleasures The New Yorker has afforded me, and pick my
ten favorite pieces. Here’s my Mid-Year Top Ten (2012):
1. Raffi Khatchadourian, “Transfiguration” (February 13 & 20,
2012)
2. Ian Frazier, “Out of the Bronx” (February 6, 2012)
3.
Robert A. Caro, “The Transition” (April 2, 2012)
4. Nick Paumgarten, “The Ring and the Bar” (January 30, 2012)
5. Burkhard Bilger, “Beware of the Dogs” (February 27, 2012)
6. Jill Lepore, “Battleground America” (April 23, 2012)
7. Peter Hessler, “Identity Parade” (May 21,
2012)
8. Dahlia Lithwick, “Extreme Makeover” (March 12, 2012)
9. Colson Whitehead, “A Psychotronic Childhood” (June 4 & 11,
2012)
10. Jeremy Denk, “Flight of the Concord” (February 6, 2012)
Credit: The above artwork is by Bendik Kaltenborn; it
appears in The New Yorker (June 25, 2012), as an “Above and Beyond”
illustration for the event “Coney Island Mermaid Parade.”
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