Burkhard Bilger has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. He was a senior editor at Discover from 1999 to 2005, and a deputy editor and writer at The Sciences from 1994 to 1999, where his work helped earn two National Magazine Awards and six nominations. His book, Noodling for Flatheads (Scribner, 2000), was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Bilger is a Branford Fellow at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1986. He is at work on a book about his grandfather’s experiences during the Second World War, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.