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Larissa MacFarquhar: Journalist, Author

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LARISSA MACFARQUHAR has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her Profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Mantel, Derek Parfit, David Chang, and Aaron Swartz, among many others.

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Video Chat: Richard Blanco – Poet, Author, Civil Engineer

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  Selected by President Barack Obama as the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco joined the ranks of such luminary...

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Believer: David Axelrod’s Improbable Journey.

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DAVID AXELROD was born and raised in New York City, graduated from the University of Chicago, was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, became a political operative and TV analyst, wrote a wonderful New York Times bestselling memoir titled, “Believer:  My Forty Years in Politics.” Of course, Axelrod is best known as the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. 

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Larissa MacFarquhar: Journalist, Author

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LARISSA MACFARQUHAR has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her Profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Mantel, Derek Parfit, David Chang, and Aaron Swartz, among many others.

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Believer: David Axelrod’s
Improbable Journey

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DAVID AXELROD was born and raised in New York City, graduated from the University of Chicago, was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, became a political operative and TV analyst, wrote a wonderful New York Times bestselling memoir titled, “Believer:  My Forty Years in Politics.” Of course, Axelrod is best known as the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. 

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