New in The New Yorker · August 2026
The Future, Made in China
Evan Osnos returns to Beijing, where he lived until 2013, to see how China is racing to own the industries of the future, and what that means for America.
Read in The New YorkerSimon & Schuster · 2025The Haves and Have-YachtsEvan Osnos
New book
The Haves and Have-Yachts
Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Essays on American oligarchy and the new Gilded Age: superyachts, luxury bunkers, tax dodges, and the political money that bespeaks staggering disparities of wealth and power.
About the bookFarrar, Straus and GirouxWildlandThe Making of America's Fury
Wildland
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
A portrait of three American communities and the forces that pulled the country apart.
ScribnerJoe BidenThe Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
Biography
Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
A reported portrait of Biden and the campaign that carried him to the presidency.
National Book Award Winner
Farrar, Straus and GirouxAge of AmbitionChasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaNational 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
Selected Articles
All articlesAbout
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. He is also co-host of The New Yorker's Political Scene podcast and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The topics of his work range from politics and foreign affairs to white-collar crime and espionage. He has published profiles of Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris; visited North Korea during a nuclear crisis; and reported from the siege on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
He is the author of four books, including Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, was an instant New York Times bestseller in 2025.
Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and in 2008. Before his assignment to China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He lives with his family near Washington, D.C.
Books
2025The Haves and Have-Yachts
The Haves and Have-Yachts
Dispatches on the ultrarich, revised and expanded from The New Yorker.
2021Wildland
Wildland
The Making of America's Fury.
2020Joe Biden
Joe Biden
The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.
National Book Award Winner
2014Age of AmbitionAge of Ambition
Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China.
Selected Articles
Podcasts
Has the U.S. lost its dominance to China?
Terry Gross talks with Osnos about "The Future, Made in China."
Will the Future Be Made in China?
With Walter Isaacson on how China has pushed itself forward and held itself back.
The Future, Made in China: America's Reckoning
Kaiser Kuo on what China's technological rise means for the U.S.
Osnos on the Trump-Xi summit
Steve Inskeep asks what the summit signals.
The Political Scene
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Contact
Contact Evan
Please send general inquiries to osnosnyer@gmail.com.
Publishers
Scribner
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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New York, NY 10011
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Literary Agent
Ms. Jennifer Joel
CAA
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Lecture Agent
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