anchor: If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.
positive: Gallants less successful stories are similar to the old New Yorker profiles.
negative: Human interest profiling isn't something you would ever find in the New Yorker.