New YorkerestEssential reads from every New Yorker issue

February 7, 1959

The New Yorker cover for February 7, 1959

Featured Pick

a reporter at large

THE SUBTLE STORM

John Brooks

REPORTER AT LARGE about a major flare that erupted on the sun, Feb. 9, 1958; about the magnetic storm that followed a day later; how it affected all sorts …

More picks from this issue

fiction

The Case For And Against The Daughters Of The American Revolution

St. Clair McKelway