The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (1954)(newyorker.com)

73 points by paulette449 3 years ago | 38 comments

The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999)(newyorker.com)

60 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Mystery of Dark Oxygen(newyorker.com)

45 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 13 comments

In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology(newyorker.com)

20 points by samizdis 16 days ago | 1 comments

New Yorker piece by Sheelah Kolhatkar on Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," which examines how Elon Musk accumulated power and challenges his self-mythology.

The Case of the Fake Sherlock(nymag.com)

86 points by danso 3 years ago | 35 comments

The man who reinvented the cat(newyorker.com)

31 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 10 comments