PEN American Center · CC BY-SA 4.0

A New Yorker staff writer since 1986 whose essays move fluidly between memoir, criticism, and reporting, collected in books like Paris to the Moon. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was identified as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in English-language college syllabi — a measure of how widely his prose style has been taken as a model for the form.