George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings about U.S. foreign policy for The New Yorker and The Atlantic and …

Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 15 years. He writes about American politics and culture and U.S. foreign policy. Journalism and fiction are …

Nov 12, 2025 · In this PEN Ten Interview, George Packer discusses his new novel The Emergency and how our society might begin to recover from moral ruin.

4 days ago · “Journalism is essential, but it can’t get at certain levels of experience — so I wrote a fable,” he says of “The Emergency,” his first novel in more than 25 years.

George Packer, a staff writer from 2003 to 2018, has covered the Iraq War for The New Yorker and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory...

Nov 14, 2025 · George Packer is best known for his journalism. He's been a staff writer at The Atlantic magazine since 2018, and before that spent 15 years at The New Yorker. He’s also …

Nov 15, 2025 · George Packer, acclaimed journalist and author, makes a powerful return to fiction after more than 20 years with his latest novel, The Emergency (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, …

GEORGE PACKER is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and staff writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq; The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New …

Oct 7, 2025 · In “The Emergency,” George Packer crafts an engaging dystopian novel that resists easy political labels and embraces nuance.

Nov 13, 2025 · That’s the question in The Emergency, the new novel by George Packer, set in a fictional world of city folk (burghers), country folk (yeomen), and immigrants (strangers) where …