Regardless of whether you’re reading Matt George, Lauren Hill, Don Winslow or William Finnegan; or jotting down a few notes ...

In 2015, William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfling Life introduced a large segment of the surfing world to the beauty of Madeira, an archipelago of small Portuguese islands closer to Africa ...

William Finnegan is a staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the author of five books, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Twenty years ago, the courts gave ...