![]() ![]() In fact if you’ve read the New Yorker over the past decade or so - if you’re a rootless cosmopolitan, say, or a non-Manhattan-dweller of vaguely liberal inclinations who can nonetheless afford both private medical insurance and Condé Nast’s subscription rates - you’ll have come across Keefe’s features. An overnight sensation, it was years in the making. Let’s be honest, Patrick Radden Keefe is not one of them - or wasn’t, until the publication last year of Empire of Pain, his book about the Sackler family and America’s opioid epidemic, based on an old New Yorker article. ![]() White, Joseph Mitchell, Janet Malcolm, Anthony Lane and Malcolm Gladwell. The magazine has always had its stars, among them James Thurber, E.B. Roguesisn’t a book book: it’s a kind of high-end sizzle reel, a “best of” articles by Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for the New Yorker. ![]()
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