NYT Ninth Annual Year in Ideas
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The Times Magazine looks back on the past year in Ideas. Check out their list of noteworthy notions of 2009.
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The Times Magazine looks back on the past year in Ideas. Check out their list of noteworthy notions of 2009.
Every year, we receive thousands of calls and requests for articles in The New Yorker’s archive. The most interesting requests, of course, come not from congressional offices or research institutions but from everyday readers who are moved by a particular story or article and want to pass it along to a friend. Over the years, certain pieces have proved so overwhelmingly popular that we often keep digital or paper copies on hand. In the last two weeks, we’ve gone back through our records and refamiliarized ourselves with the pieces that have demonstrated such enduring appeal to our readers.
Here, then, in no particular order, are the top ten most requested articles over the past decade:
- Seymour M. Hersh’s “Torture at Abu Ghraib,” about the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, published in the issue of May 10, 2004.
Laura Hillenbrand’s “A Sudden Illness,” about the writer’s experience with chronic fatigue syndrome, published in the issue of July 7, 2003.
Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Climate of Man,” the first of a three-part series about the effects of global warming on the Arctic, published in the issue of April 25, 2005.
Calvin Trillin’s “Alice, Off the Page,” about the writer’s recollections of his late wife, published in the issue of March 27, 2006.
Bernard Lewis’s “The Revolt of Islam,” about Islam’s historic rivalry with the West, published in the issue of November 19, 2001.
Jerome Groopman’s “A Knife in the Back,” about treatments for chronic back pain, published in the issue of April 8, 2002.
David Grann’s “City of Water,” about New York City’s antiquated water-tunnel system and the workers who build the tunnels, published in the issue of September 1, 2003.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s “Landing From the Sky,” about an impoverished single mother’s relationship with an abusive drug dealer in the Bronx, published in the issue of April 24 & May 1, 2000.
Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Naked Face,” about how facial-expression technology is utilized in law enforcement, published in the issue of August 5, 2002.
Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” a short story about two cowboys who fall in love in 1963, published in the issue of October 13, 1997. While technically not published within this decade, this has been our top requested fiction piece of the past ten years. The most requested issue of the past decade is the September 11th commemorative issue, which featured a twenty-page report on the attacks by David Remnick and the editorial staff, and which was published in the issue of September 24, 2001.
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