NOVEMBER 2025 – Mark Singer’s been at The New Yorker his entire career, since he escaped Yale in the early 70s. Meantime he’s written some of the best-woven, best reported people tales you’ll ever read. Observant, descriptive but always a little understated, he’s a writer who can get close but never falls in love with his subject. The late Tony Horwitz (“Confederates in The Attic”) and Tom Wolf were in the same league.
In the mid 90s Singer followed Donald Trump around for a while, writing a 1996 profile that later got stretched into a book. And in mid November 2025 the 75-year-old Singer revisited Trump: Singer’s recent by-lined piece recounts a mid-90s helicopter ride with Trump the casino developer. The recollection? Singer sits by and listens to a radio conversation between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, with Ghislaine Maxwell sitting nearby. And the upshot? Even back then, Trump was knee-deep in Epstein. This latest piece won’t likely be changing any opinions but it’s worth a read nonetheless.
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/jeffrey-who-a-plane-ride-with-donald-trump