New Yorker Favorites
- Searching for the cause of a catastrophic plane crash.
- The lonely fate of Typhoid Mary.
- The women Edmund White dated as he tried to go straight.
- Should we expect more from fathers?
- The heiress who probably spent more on clothing and jewels than any queen in history.
- How baseball players became celebrities.
- Shouts & Murmurs: I’m thrilled to report that nothing is going on with me.
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, author, and musician. He is presently “Prime Unifying Scientist” at Microsoft, but does not speak for the company.I’ve spent my life working on virtual reality—but my instruments have revealed the real world.
