Larissa MacFarquhar is a journalist and author. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, where she is known for her profiles. Before joining the New Yorker, MacFarquhar was a senior editor at Lingua Franca, and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. MacFarquhar's work has appeared in Artforum, The Nation, The New Republic, the Times Book Review, Slate, and other publications. Her first book, "Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help," was published in 2015.