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Joshua Rothman
- Joshua Rothman is The New Yorker’s archive editor. He joined the magazine in 2012, and is a frequent contributor to newyorker.com, where he writes primarily about the magazine’s archive and about books and culture. Rothman grew up near Washington, D.C., and graduated from Princeton University. Before coming to The New Yorker, he was a doctoral candidate in the English department at Harvard, an instructor in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a columnist for the Ideas section of the Boston Globe.
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August 15, 2013
Blog: Currency
New Yorker Profiles of Business Icons: The Past Eighty Years
We’ve gathered a dozen of our most iconic articles on businesspeople from throughout the magazine’s history…
August 14, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Hamlet: A Love Story
The Oedipus complex is a misnomer. It should be called the Hamlet complex.
August 12, 2013
Blog: News Desk
The Verdict on Whitey Bulger
On Monday, a Boston jury found Bulger guilty on all but one of the thirty-two counts of racketeering, extortion, money laundering, and illegal-firearms possession that he faced. The jury also concluded that the prosecution had proved that Bulger murdered eleven people, including Tommy King.
August 5, 2013
Blog: Double Take
The Washington Post in The New Yorker
Now comes word that the Washington Post has also been sold, in this case to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. Over the years, The New Yorker has published a lot of writing about the Post.
July 26, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Happy Birthday, Mick Jagger
On Mick Jagger’s seventieth birthday, stories from the archive about Jagger and the Rolling Stones.
July 20, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Before Air-Conditioning
The New Yorker’s archive offers a window into the pre-air-conditioning world.
July 17, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Sargent’s Watercolors
Sargent is famous for his portraits, but his watercolors are almost all outdoor scenes: Venetian canals, Alpine mountains, trees and buildings in sunlight…
June 21, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
When Dan Brown Came to Visit
Who needs conspiracy novels when memory is its own conspiracy, always rewriting and erasing the truth?
June 13, 2013
Blog: Double Take
The Thumb-Drive Threat
Cyber-security experts have been sounding the alarm about thumb drives, like the one Edward Snowden used, for years…
June 12, 2013
Blog: Double Take
Rescue at the Hearst Tower
Rescuers successfully retrieved two maintenance workers at the Hearst Tower, in Midtown, who had become trapped on their scaffold.
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