On the Horizon: "Thurman and Lepore: Two Superb 'New Yorker' Essayists"

Judith Thurman’s A Left-Handed Woman (2022) and Jill Lepore’s The Deadline (2023) are two of the great New Yorker essay collections of the last twenty years – where “great” means original, acerbic, perceptive, evocative, analytical, passionate, illuminating, stylish. To celebrate them, I’m going to select four of my favorite pieces from each book (one per month, for the next eight months) and try to express why I like them so much. A new series then – “Thurman and Lepore: Two Superb New Yorker Essayists” – starting April 15, 2024.