Fiction, from 1965: The children did not know that they were living under what would later be called “unsheltered conditions.” They didn’t know that they were uneducated, and dirty, and in danger.
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March 25-31
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
102 articles from this week
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Part 3 of John McPhee’s Profile of the environmentalist and longtime head of the Sierra Club David Brower and the birth of the modern conservation movement.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the defused crisis between India and Pakistan in 1990, which could have led to nuclear war between the two countries, and …
Mark Singer’s 2000 profile of Martin Scorsese. “What drives a Scorsese tale is his talent for weaving variegated optical and aural and emotional textures. Underlying these dazzling gifts is his compulsion to provoke discomfort in himself and his audience.”
Jill Lepore writes about the trend of marriage therapy and couples counselling, and examines how the practice started, in 1930, with Paul Popenoe’s marriage clinic.
Calvin Tomkins writes that recognition for the American sculptor, who is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, may have come late but it seems foreordained.