Hilton Als on the writer Carson McCullers: her tumultuous personal life, her professional ambition, and her penetrating novels.
Best New Yorker Miscellaneous
A collection of notable articles that span multiple categories or don't fit neatly into traditional sections. These diverse pieces represent The New Yorker's range and editorial flexibility.
11 picks · 1935–2001
Top authors: E. B. White (2), Thomas Wolfe (1), Robert Benchley (1)
How a bag of supermarket ice cubes launched a plan to dominate an industry.
Susan Sontag’s exploration of a modern-day version of the story from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses."
Woody Allen imagines a call-girl racket in which young, brainy women engage in intellectual—rather than physical—intercourse.
E. B. White’s parody of “The Greening of America.”
Roger Angell imagines a literary feud sparked by “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
S. J. Perelman’s parody of Helen Gurley Brown's “Sex and the Single Girl.”
E. B. White imagines how Hemingway would describe a visit to a restaurant.
James Thurber imagines the plight of the American writer.
Robert Benchley on how comedy really works.
Thomas Wolfe’s classic short story, written in Brooklynese, about the eternal struggle to navigate the city’s train lines, and to get to know the borough.