Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 (age 52–53) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1998-present |
| Spouse | Philip Gourevitch |
| Relatives | Roderick MacFarquhar (father) |
Larissa MacFarquhar 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 America 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, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among others.[4][5] 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[]
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Books[]
- MacFarquhar, Larissa (2016). Strangers Drowning : Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. Penguin Books. ISBN 0143109782.
Essays and reporting[]
- MacFarquhar, Larissa (Fall 1994). "Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1". Paris Review (132).
- 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.[6]
References[]
- ^ Perlez, Jane (February 12, 2019). "Roderick MacFarquhar, Eminent China Scholar, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ^ Wolf, David (October 17, 2015). "Larissa MacFarquhar interview: 'People think I'm a total freak for not using the first person'". The Guardian. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "Larissa MacFarquhar: What is Family, What are Strangers?". Stanford Humanities. March 6, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ "Larissa MacFarquhar". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ Larissa MacFarquhar in The UNZ Review.
- ^ Online version is titled "The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark".
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