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Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Larissa MacFarquhar writes about extreme altruists, people who make great sacrifices to help others. She ...
New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar's new book, Strangers Drowning, profiles everyday people who go to extraordinary lengths to help others, even those living on the other side of the world.
David Simon is developing a new series at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively. Simon is attached to write and executive produce the drama project, currently titled “The System.” Lily Thorne and ...
Paul Krugman the Nobel Prize-winner, New York Times columnist, and Atlantic 50 member is well-known. Paul Krugman the man is less so. Enter The New Yorker's Larissa MacFarquhar, who sheds light on the ...
Peter Singer leads a forum on the logic of effective altruism. Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Paul Brest, Larissa MacFarquhar, and others respond. Plus: Stephen Steinberg, Claude Fischer, Vivian ...
On October 26, 2025, the New Yorker staff writers Larissa MacFarquhar, Rebecca Mead, Ian Parker, Kelefa Sanneh, and Michael Schulman joined the executive editor Daniel Zalewski onstage at the 26th ...