Contributors
Nick Paumgarten
@NickPaumgartenNick Paumgarten has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Prior to that, he was an editor of the Talk of the Town. He has reported on a wide range of subjects, including politics, finance, art, music, food, technology, mountaineering, sports-talk radio, elevators, boxer-bartenders, commuters, and canoes.
All Work
- Personal History
My Year of Concussions
The thud was thicker than I’d expected. It felt as if my head had been slammed in a car door.
November 4, 2019
- Public Works
Edward Norton Conjures Robert Moses’s New York
How the director of “Motherless Brooklyn” re-created the nineteen-fifties for Alec Baldwin and a building under the Triborough Bridge.
October 21, 2019
- Postscript
Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice
The lyricist, who died last week, gave the Dead’s psychedelic Dixieland sound some quicksilver conceptual coherence and old-timey cred, grounded in American folk legend.
October 1, 2019
- Songs of the Day
Jenny Lewis’s Wasted Youth
The singer on her origin story: her father was a harmonica virtuoso, her grandmother was a Busby Berkeley dancer, and her grandfather was a Golden Gloves boxer.
September 23, 2019
- A Reporter at Large
The Message of Measles
As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease.
August 26, 2019
- Brave New World
An Archeological Space Oddity
The Egyptologist Sarah Parcak is using satellites to recruit amateur Indiana Joneses who can help locate ancient tombs before they’re lost forever.
July 1, 2019
- The Sporting Scene
Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National
The home of the Masters Tournament is a prelapsarian golf paradise, combining good manners and Southern delights with exclusion and self-satisfaction.
June 14, 2019
- Letter from Austria
The Wild Carnival at the Heart of Skiing’s Most Dangerous Race
The punishing Hahnenkamm downhill brings street-party revelry to a medieval town in the Tyrolean Alps.
April 22, 2019
- The Sporting Scene
Tiger Woods’s Masters Win, Roar by Roar
The sound that spectators make when they witness Woods doing something amazing has a galvanizing, animal effect.
April 15, 2019
- Our Local Correspondents
The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock
Craig Carton’s misadventures in gambling and in the ticket-resale game led the on-air personality to risk everything on a pretty flimsy play.
April 5, 2019
