Biography

2023
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “The World According to Elon Musk's Grandfather.” The New Yorker, September 19, 2023. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “The X-Man: How Elon Musk went from superhero to supervillain.” The New Yorker, September 11, 2023. Article
The Everyman Library
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “The Everyman Library.” The New York Review of Books, August 27, 2023. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “Watching Childhood End in My Backyard.” The New Yorker, August 26, 2023. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “The View from Inside Beatlemania.” The New Yorker, June 10, 2023. Article
Introduction: Beatleland.
Lepore, Jill. 2023. “Introduction: Beatleland.” Paul McCartney, 1964: Eyes of the Storm. London and New York: Penguin and Norton.
The Deadline: Essays
Lepore, Jill. 2023. The Deadline: Essays. New York: W.W. Norton. Publisher's Version Abstract
A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.
 

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore’s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay—and of history—itself.

2022
Lepore, Jill. 2022. “My Italian Grandmother.” The New Yorker, July 12, 2022. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2022. “Counter-espionage.” The New Yorker, December 5, 2022. Article
2021
Lepore, Jill. 2021. “The Elephant Who Could Be a Person.” The Atlantic, November 15, 2021. Article
2020
Lepore, Jill. 2020. “From Sea to Shining Sea.” America the Beautiful: A Story in Photographs, 17-21. Washington, DC: National Geographic. Book
Lepore, Jill. 2020. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Great Equalizer.” newyorker.com, September 18, 2020. Article
2019
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “Know it All: Edward Snowden and the rise of whistle-blowing.” The New Yorker, September 23, 2019.
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “Ahab at Home: Two hundred years of Herman Melville.” The New Yorker, July 29, 2019. Article
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The Deadline: On the lingering of loss
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “The Deadline: On the lingering of loss.” The New Yorker, July 8, 2019. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “Bound to Win: Memoirs of presidential candidates.” The New Yorker, May 20, 2019. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2019. “The Fireman: Eugene V. Debs and the endurance of socialism.” The New Yorker, February 18, 2019. Article
2018
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “Misjudged: How Justice Ginsburg overcame the distrust of feminists.” The New Yorker, October 8, 2018. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “The Shorebird: Rachel Carson and the rising of the seas.” The New Yorker, March 26, 2018. Article
Lepore, Jill. 2018. “It's Alive: Two hundred years of Frankenstein.” The New Yorker, February 12, 2018. Article
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