The New Yorker

Nathan Heller began contributing to *The New Yorker* in 2011 and joined the magazine as a staff writer in 2013. He writes often about the Bay Area, technology, higher education, and contemporary socioeconomics; his subjects have also included politics, true crime, and film. His work has been anthologized in the Best American series and elsewhere, and he has been an on-air essayist for “PBS NewsHour.” Heller is also a contributing editor at *Vogue*, for which he has written a number of cover prof