Patrick Radden Keefe
@praddenkeefePatrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2006. He has written about the chef turned world traveller Anthony Bourdain, the capture of the Mexican drug baron Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán Loera, and allegations of corruption against the tycoon Beny Steinmetz over a lucrative mining concession in Guinea. His story “A Loaded Gun,” about the troubled history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop, received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014; he was also a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016. He is the author of two books: “The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream,” which grew out of an article published in the magazine, and “Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping.” He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the New America Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Listen: Patrick Radden Keefe discusses his profile of prominent New York financier Carl Icahn on WNYC.
All Work
- Daily Comment
Why Were a Filmmaker and a Journalist Arrested in Northern Ireland?
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey estimate that, in total, as many as a hundred officers took part in the operation—a show of force that seems hard to account for, unless the objective was intimidation.
3:21 P.M.
- Letter from Amsterdam
How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister
Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge?
- Postscript
Travels with Anthony Bourdain
Tony will be remembered for his infectious enthusiasms and his brash exuberance, but I was most inspired by his capacity for reinvention.
June 8, 2018
- News Desk
The Last Testament of a Former I.R.A. Terrorist
A documentary film sheds new light on a notorious murder in Northern Ireland.
April 26, 2018
- A Reporter at Large
McMaster and Commander
Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?
- A Reporter at Large
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
- A Reporter at Large
Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington
Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line?
- Annals of Justice
Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low.
- Profiles
Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast
Guided by a lusty appetite for indigenous culture and cuisine, the swaggering chef has become a travelling statesman.
