Letter from Beijing · August 2026
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
A portrait of three American communities and the forces that pulled the country apart.
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Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
2020 - Financial Times Best Book of the Year. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos draws on nearly a decade of reporting for The New Yorker to capture the characters and meaning of 2020’s extraordinary presidential election. The audiobook includes Osnos's conversation with David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour.
National Book Award Winner
Age of Ambition
The clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control, drawn from eight years living in Beijing.
A splendid and entertaining picture of 21st-century China. — The Wall Street Journal
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