Contributors
Paige Williams
@Williams_PaigePaige Williams joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. She is the author of “The Dinosaur Artist,” which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2018. Her journalism has won the National Magazine Award for feature writing and has appeared in anthologies including “The Best American Magazine Writing” and “The Best American Crime Writing.” She was a fellow at MacDowell, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
All Work
- Shipshape
On the U.S.N.S. Comfort, the Fight Changes Constantly
The massive hospital ship, a former oil tanker, was deployed to New York for the first time since 9/11.
April 20, 2020
- News Desk
Trump’s Dangerous Messaging About a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
The President has continued to recommend a combination of drugs that are unproven in fighting the novel coronavirus and are known to cause dangerous side effects.
March 27, 2020
- A Reporter at Large
The Wrong Way to Fight the Opioid Crisis
People struggling with addiction who share a lethal dose of drugs are being prosecuted as killers.
February 3, 2020
- Dispatch
What Dayton’s Mayor Wants America to Learn from Her City
After a local resident killed nine people, Nan Whaley navigates the politics of gun control and a visit by President Trump.
August 11, 2019
- Rent Dept.
Rent-Stabilized and Nervous in the East Village
Tenants don’t mind Susan Schiffman seeing dust mops or sex toys when she photographs their spaces—just don’t ask what they pay in rent.
June 24, 2019
- News Desk
Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders the Future of the Republican Party?
The outgoing White House press secretary is likely to consider a run for governor in Arkansas. But can she come back from a legacy of having lied repeatedly to the public?
June 17, 2019
- The Out-Of-Towners
The Crisis Called for Goats
The Riverside Park Conservancy has hired a herd of twenty-four to chew their way through a hillside of poison ivy and other invasive species.
May 20, 2019
- A Reporter at Large
Turning Bystanders Into First Responders
In the mass-shooting era, civilians must help one another in a crisis—and keep victims from bleeding to death.
April 1, 2019
- Letter from Nashville
The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map
An African-American-owned restaurant began making the spicy dish eighty years ago. Now it’s a viral sensation. Who’s getting the big money?
January 28, 2019
- Influencers
The Food Babies of Instagram
Mike Chau has photographed his kids with meatballs, red velvet cake, shakshuka, pizza, tofu, cider doughnuts, and kimchi.
December 31, 2018
