The First American
Fiction, from 1983: He looked at Ilka and said, “We’re standing here, side by side, but how do I know what you see?”
Lore Segal, "The First American": immigrant experience, becoming one thing by leaving another.
May 30, 1983
The New Yorker is older than we are. For issues that predate this project, an algorithm trained on our taste did the picking.