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June 17, 1991

The New Yorker cover for June 17, 1991

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profiles

Living Large

Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean’s 1991 Profile of Fab Five Freddy, the artist, musician, and host of “Yo! MTV Raps.”

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a reporter at large

II-CHINATOWN

Gwen Kinkead

fiction

Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship, Santa Fe, January, 1492

Salman Rushdie