Larissa MacFarquhar explained
Larissa MacFarquhar (born 1968) is an American writer known for her profiles in The New Yorker.
She is the daughter of the sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar.[1] She was born in London, and moved to the United States at the age of 16.[2]
MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998[3] and has written profiles on Barack Obama, Derek Parfit, Hilary Mantel, Robert Gottlieb, Richard Posner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, among others.[4] Her 2015 book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help explores the motivations of people who take altruism to extremes. She is married to the writer Philip Gourevitch.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Book: MacFarquhar. Strangers Drowning : Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. Penguin Books. 2016. 0143109782 .
Essays and reporting
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. Fall 1994. Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1. 132. Paris Review.
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. December 10, 2001. The Bench Burner. The New Yorker.
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. September 5, 2011. How to Be Good. The New Yorker.
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. October 15, 2012. The Dead Are Real. The New Yorker.
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. March 3, 2013. Requiem for a Dream. The New Yorker.
- MacFarquhar, Larissa. April 2, 2018 . Mind expander : Andy Clark believes that your thinking isn't all in your head . The New Yorker . 94 . 7 . 62–73 . [5]
External links
Notes and References
- News: Perlez . Jane . Roderick MacFarquhar, Eminent China Scholar, Dies at 88 . April 19, 2019 . The New York Times . February 12, 2019.
- Web site: Wolf. David. October 17, 2015. Larissa MacFarquhar interview: 'People think I'm a total freak for not using the first person'. August 28, 2020. The Guardian. en.
- Web site: March 6, 2014. Larissa MacFarquhar: What is Family, What are Strangers?. August 28, 2020. Stanford Humanities. en.
- Larissa MacFarquhar. The New Yorker. en. January 25, 2019.
- Online version is titled "The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark".