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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is a frequent and long-standing contributor of essays, stories, and reported pieces to The New Yorker. He is the author of the novels “Crossroads,” “Purity,” “Freedom,” “The Corrections,” “Strong Motion,” and “The Twenty-Seventh City”; three collections of essays, “The End of the End of the Earth,” “Farther Away,” and “How to Be Alone”; a memoir, “The Discomfort Zone”; and a book-length essay in footnotes to a translation, “The Kraus Project.”

How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name

By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves.

The Problem of Nature Writing

To succeed—to get people to care about preserving the world—it can’t be only about nature. 

What If We Stopped Pretending?

The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Hard Up in New York

It’s 1981, the city is fractured, and you’re only just holding it together.

Breakup Stories

Tuesday, and After

New Yorker writers respond to 9/11.

My Father’s Brain

What Alzheimer’s takes away.

How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name

By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves.

The Problem of Nature Writing

To succeed—to get people to care about preserving the world—it can’t be only about nature. 

What If We Stopped Pretending?

The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Hard Up in New York

It’s 1981, the city is fractured, and you’re only just holding it together.

Breakup Stories

Tuesday, and After

New Yorker writers respond to 9/11.

My Father’s Brain

What Alzheimer’s takes away.