Last week’s New Yorker was particularly good and these stood out.
Surgeon Atul Gawande surveys recent developments in childbirth — as he describes it “How childbirth went industrial.”
Historian Jill Lepore reviews Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Mark Singer has a profile of murderer and escapee Richard McNair. The article is not available, but here’s a video of the suspect confronted by a police officer the day of his last escape. Priceless.