Lisa Miller

  • Home
  • About Lisa Miller
  • Contact Lisa
  • About “Heaven”
    • Praise for “Heaven”
  • Book Clubs

I Married the Perfect Man for the Apocalypse

July 21, 2017 By Lisa Miller

A husband, I’ve learned, can’t be everything. You have to choose the human qualities that matter most — to you — and trust your gut, and go with that. This is much harder, even, than it sounds, because in the 21st century a woman is encouraged to display herself, kalaidescopically, as contradictory things, a kitten […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Can Trump Actually Bring Jobs Back to Ford?

May 17, 2017 By Lisa Miller

The 10,000 residents of Flat Rock, Michigan, are cheerful lately — you might even say optimistic. Fifteen new businesses have opened in the past year, including Blue Heron Trading Company, a candle-scented gift shop selling local jams and jellies, and a Burger King franchise directly across the street from the Ford Motor Company assembly plant, […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

John Hinckley Left the Mental Hospital Seven Months Ago

March 21, 2017 By Lisa Miller

At 2:30 on Saturday afternoon, September 10, a hired SUV pulled up to the curb of a low-slung brick-and-wood house in suburban Virginia and let a passenger out. The man, who wore a tan baseball cap and a black T-shirt, did not glance at the paparazzi lenses trained on him but walked straight inside. He […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Don’t Tell Me I “Look Good”

February 1, 2017 By Lisa Miller

Don’t bother telling me how good I look, because I know what you really mean. For my age, you mean. Face it: To tell a woman over 50 that she “looks good” is condescending, like telling a 4-year-old that she’s “so big” or a dog that he’s “so smart.” It’s a compliment that contains an […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

An Experiment in Empathy

December 26, 2016 By Lisa Miller

  He auctioned off the pistol that killed Trayvon Martin. She watched her child die in a mass shooting. Can they change each other’s minds about guns? On his recent trip to New York, Todd Underwood did not pack a gun. This was unusual, the first time in five years that he went anywhere, even […]

Filed Under: Home-Top, New York Magazine

My Daughter Grew Up Believing She Could Do Anything

November 10, 2016 By Lisa Miller

Our 12-year-old daughter, Josephine, found an interactive electoral map online, and on Election Night she was settled on the couch, snuggled in an old fleece blanket, watching TV with the map booted up in her lap. Earlier in the evening, we had dinner with friends, and she had been manic with excitement, running laps around […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

Laurene Powell Jobs’s $100 Million Mission to Disrupt American High School

October 17, 2016 By Lisa Miller

Since 2001, about $15 billion has been spent by taxpayers and philanthropists trying to boost academic achievement in American public schools. These efforts have largely failed — especially in high school. For the average 17-year-old, reading and math scores have not budged since 1971. On standardized tests, white 17-year-olds still outscore black 17-year-olds by 20 […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

The New Sandy Hook Elementary Is Meant to Be a Fresh Start, But It Still Evokes Tragedy

August 2, 2016 By Lisa Miller

Since December 14, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut, has had a prickly relationship with the press. So many camera trucks swamped the narrow, hilly roads in the hours after the mass shooting there — where 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School were killed — that for weeks even longtime residents didn’t recognize their […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

The Last Days of “Miracle Boy”

April 4, 2016 By Lisa Miller

The men are sweet when they talk to me, like boys eager to please the teacher. These are BMX riders — current and former, amateur and pro — mourning Dave Mirra, the Michael Jordan of their sport, who committed suicide in February. He sat in the cab of his truck near his home in Greenville, […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

From Zika to Trump: The Savvy Politics of Pope Francis

February 19, 2016 By Lisa Miller

  Pope Francis has had some week. Aboard the papal plane en route to Rome on Thursday, in response to a reporter’s question about the use of contraception to prevent the conception of children afflicted with deformities possibly linked to the Zika virus, he said this: “Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.” What? What […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • …
  • 13
  • Next Page »

About Lisa Miller

Lisa-Miller-Headshot

Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

read more...

NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

Lisa-Miller-Headshot

Recent Tweets

  • I retract my critique of the handmaids tale May 4, 2022 12:32 am
  • Before: daughter leaves for school. Her father yells, “learn something new!” Now: daughter leaves for school. He… https://t.co/HNQeWazKqJ May 3, 2022 10:19 pm
  • Wordle 304 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 April 19, 2022 11:25 am
  • Go @mollyhfischer! xoxox https://t.co/Fo4wcfQa31 March 29, 2022 7:06 pm
  • Wordle 282 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 March 28, 2022 3:07 pm
  • https://www.twitter.com/lisaxmiller

Recent Posts

  • Children of Quarantine
  • My Therapists Were Right About Uncertainty
  • Why Did I Think She Wouldn’t Die?
  • The Making of a Molotov Cocktail
  • Two Weeks With Rachel Noerdlinger, the Movement’s Publicist

Copyright © 2022 Lisa Miller