Ed Caesar
@edcaesarEd Caesar is a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He has written stories about the mysterious owners of London’s largest private residence, Russian money-laundering scams, rogue publicists, and Brexit. Caesar started his career at the Independent and has since written for the Sunday Times of London, GQ, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine, among others.
In 2014, Caesar was named Journalist of the Year by the Foreign Press Association of London, for his coverage of the civil war in the Central African Republic. His first book, “Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon,” about the world’s finest distance runners, was published in 2015 and won a Cross Sports Book Award. In 2016, an article of his in The New Yorker that exposed the multibillion-dollar “mirror trades” scheme at Deutsche Bank won a Foreign Press Award.
All Work
- Dispatch
The Choice Between Labour and Leave in the U.K. General Election
Batley and Spen, the former constituency of the murdered M.P. Jo Cox, offers a microcosm of the wider contest.
December 10, 2019
- The Sporting Scene
Eliud Kipchoge Breaks the Two-Hour Barrier in the Marathon
On the streets of Vienna, on Saturday, Kipchoge ran a time that was, until recently, considered impossible.
October 12, 2019
- The Sporting Scene
Inside the Race to Break the Two-Hour Marathon
At the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, in Vienna, the world-record holder, Eliud Kipchoge, will face long-distance running’s most daunting barrier—likely for the last time.
October 11, 2019
- Replay
Liverpool’s Long Journey to Champions League Victory
At its best, identity-driven support for British soccer teams can lead fans to feel part of something wonderful and complicated, something much larger than themselves and generations old.
June 2, 2019
- A Reporter at Large
The Undercover Fascist
A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.
May 20, 2019
- Replay
Liverpool and Tottenham Fail Better in the Champions League Semifinal
Part of the thrill of watching the Champions League is seeing the clash of opposing footballing philosophies.
May 9, 2019
- Letter from London
The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit”
The U.K. is in a panic over voters’ decision to withdraw from the E.U. But the pugnacious millionaire whose donations—and Trumpian scare tactics—helped sway Britons has no regrets.
March 18, 2019
- Letter from London
The Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation
A P.R. company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.
June 18, 2018
- News Desk
At a Vigil, Manchester Gets the Poem It Needs
Tony Walsh wrote “This Is the Place” in 2015, for the twentieth birthday of the Manchester Arena, where a bomb went off on Monday.
May 23, 2017
- News Desk
A Terrorist Attack in Manchester
The morning after an attack at Manchester Arena, parents were still looking for children who had not returned.
May 23, 2017
