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Larissa MacFarquhar

Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, and Noam Chomsky, among many others. Previously she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. 


Why Are Do-Gooders So Irritating?

Larissa MacFarquhar Examines the Origins of Selflessness
October 29, 2015  By Larissa MacFarquhar
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