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Larissa MacFarquhar

Larissa MacFarquhar (born 1968) is an American writer known for her profiles in The New Yorker.

She is the daughter of the sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar.^[1] She was born in London, and moved to the United States at the age of 16.^[2]

MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998^[3] and has written profiles on Barack Obama, Derek Parfit, Hilary Mantel, Robert Gottlieb, Richard Posner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, among others.^[4] Her 2015 book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help explores the motivations of people who take altruism to extremes. She is married to the writer Philip Gourevitch.

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• MacFarquhar, Larissa (2016). Strangers Drowning : Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. Penguin Books. ISBN 0143109782.

• MacFarquhar, Larissa (Fall 1994). "Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1". Paris Review (132).
• MacFarquhar, Larissa (December 10, 2001). "The Bench Burner". The New Yorker.
• MacFarquhar, Larissa (September 5, 2011). "How to Be Good". The New Yorker.
• MacFarquhar, Larissa (October 15, 2012). "The Dead Are Real". The New Yorker.
• MacFarquhar, Larissa (March 3, 2013). "Requiem for a Dream". The New Yorker.
• MacFarquhar, Larissa (April 2, 2018). "Mind expander : Andy Clark believes that your thinking isn't all in your head". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 7. pp. 62–73.^[5]

• Larissa MacFarquhar Profile on TEDMED
• Mercatus Center interview (2019)

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