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Margaret Talbot
- Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2003. Previously, she was a contributing writer at the Times Magazine and, from 1995 to 1999, an editor at The New Republic.
Talbot’s stories, covering manners and morals, social policy, and popular culture, have appeared in the Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, the Times Book Review, and The New Republic.
Talbot was one of the founding editors of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life and was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. In 1999, she received a Whiting Writer’s Award. Her first book, “The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century,” was published in 2012. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
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October 25, 2013
Blog: Comment
The True Obamacare Test
What we will remember, and what ultimately matters, is whether the A.C.A. fulfills its promise…
Oct 28, 2013
Profiles
Home Movies
Alexander Payne’s movies shuttle nimbly between humor and sadness, with Chaplinesque pathos often inscribed into physical comedy. Four of his movies are set in Nebraska, where he grew up, and they feature, in smaller roles, locals who have never acted professionally. Payne is a rare type in American film: a regionalist, who keeps returning to the specifics of his Midwestern experience in order to find something universal. In his latest film, “Nebraska,” Bruce Dern gives a remarkable performance that won him the Best Actor award at Cannes, when the film screened there, in May.
Oct 21, 2013
American Chronicles
Gone Girl
Elizabeth Smart is a member of a tiny sorority of women who have escaped from modern-day Bluebeards and shared their story. Although Smart will never escape being associated with the lurid captivity she endured, she has chosen to remain a public figure and has been unusually successful at doing so on her own terms. She is a full-time advocate for the prevention of child abuse who lobbies for legislation and heads a foundation, and she also delivers some eighty speeches a year.
Oct 14, 2013
Comment
Washington Dramas
What should bother Tea Party conservatives, deeply, is the anti-democratic nature of the shutdown. To hold up a budget and shut down the government in order to sabotage a law you don’t like is not just nose-thumbing at the government; it’s flouting the will of the people.
August 30, 2013
Blog: Comment
Chelsea Manning’s Prison
One of the sadder things about the life of Chelsea, formerly Bradley, Manning is that she always seems to have been in the wrong place. But for once, as an incarcerated trans person, it may not be the wrong time.
August 9, 2013
Blog: Comment
Obesity Lessons for Liberals and Conservatives
Data from the Centers for Disease Control showed that in nineteen states and U.S. territories the obesity rate among poor preschool-aged children had finally dropped.
July 3, 2013
Blog: Comment
Now for the Mini-DOMAs
What the DOMA decision does not immediately improve is the lot of same-sex couples who live in the thirty-seven states without marriage equality.
May 31, 2013
Blog: Comment
The Downside of Being the Breadwinner
When you look at the Pew study, or any number of studies like it, solely through the lens of gender, it’s actually a pretty rosy picture. If you look at it through the lens of class, the view is different and less uplifting.
May 17, 2013
Blog: Comment
Obama vs. the Press
On Thursday, President Obama called on Congress to revive a federal shield law that would protect reporters from the sort of thing the Justice Department has done to the A.P. This was ironic on two counts.
May 11, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk
Vampire Weekend Mom
After talking with Najmieh Batmanglij, and later with Zal and Rostam, it seemed to me that some of the attitudes she and her husband, Mohammad, held about family life were inspiring enough to be distilled into a little list.
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