Constantly updated. This is a true work in progress. Every New Yorker article is great -- given a certain threshold -- but these are the ones whose forms and content have actually inspired the stuff I've written.
"Somebody Has to be in Control," Ian Parker.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/14/080414fa_fact_parker
"You Belong With Me," Lizzie Widdicombe.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_widdicombe
"The Aquarium," Aleksandar Hamon.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/13/110613fa_fact_hemon
"Grub," Dana Goodyear.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_goodyear
"The Other Obama," Lauren Collins.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins
"Master of Play," Nick Paumgarten.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa_fact_paumgarten
"Alone in the Dark," Philip Gourevitch.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/09/08/030908fa_fact4?currentPage=all
"Keeping it Real," James Wood, on the conventions of the novel
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/15/100315crat_atlarge_wood?currentPage=all
"Holden at Fifty," Louis Menand.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/10/01/011001fa_FACT3?currentPage=all
"Everything is Fiction," Keith Ridgeway.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/08/everything-is-fiction.html
"This week in Fiction: Junot Diaz"
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/07/this-week-in-fiction-junot-diaz-1.html
David Hoon Kim. "Sweetheart Sorrow." (Just....wow.)
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/06/11/070611fi_fiction_kim?currentPage=all
Mikhail Iossel, "Life: How was it?"
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/meeting-a-friend-at-the-strand.html
Jeffrey Eugenides, "Posthumous."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/12/jeffrey-eugenides-advice-to-young-writers.html
Donald Hall, "Out the Window."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/23/120123fa_fact_hall