Gender Studies

[Fiction] While traveling to a conference, a recently dumped gender studies professor views herself in the reflection of her airport shuttle driver.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 22, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,705 words)

The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women

Women perform so many of the essential duties that compose modern bureaucracy. It’s about time the subset of American fiction you might call “office literature” started to reflect that.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 27, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2,317 words)

The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web

A growing body of research is changing the way scientists think about symbiotic forest fungi, and revolutionizing our understanding of plant communication, cooperation and friendship.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 7, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2,263 words)

The Duo That Dominates Dressage

Inside the fanciful world of dressage and how one outsider athlete and her unruly horse set a new standard in the little-known equestrian sport.

Author: Sam Knight
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 1, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5,761 words)

Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

Tony Schwartz was a New York magazine writer recruited by Donald Trump to ghost write his 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal. He now regrets what he created and says Trump is unfit to be president.

Author: Jane Mayer
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 18, 2016
Length: 27 minutes (6,867 words)

Who Are All These Trump Supporters?

George Saunders goes on the road to attend Trump rallies to get a sense of why so many people support the controversial candidate, and an understanding of how America has become so divided.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 4, 2016
Length: 41 minutes (10,419 words)

Confessional

A profile of the savagely smart former “Bachelor” producer behind Lifetime’s “Unreal.”

Author: D.T. Max
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 20, 2016
Length: 23 minutes (5,803 words)

Home Free

How a New York State prisoner became a jailhouse lawyer, and changed the system.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 13, 2016
Length: 30 minutes (7,588 words)

How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley

The HBO show “Silicon Valley” portrays the tech world accurately thanks to a network of more than 200 consultants, which includes “academics, investors, entrepreneurs, and employees at Google, Amazon, Netflix, and several other tech firms.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 9, 2016
Length: 25 minutes (6,441 words)

Citizen Khan

The origins of a Muslim community in northern Wyoming is a quintessential American story. It starts more than 100 years ago with a man named Zarif Khan selling tamales in the American frontier.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 30, 2016
Length: 30 minutes (7,610 words)