This Week in History
April 1-7
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
102 articles from this week
Featured Pick
Also Notable
Janet Flanner’s 1950 Letter from Rome telling of the journalistic excitement stirred up by the birth of Ingrid Bergman’s baby.
A short story by John Cheever about an affair and its surprising aftermath.
Roger Angell travels south for the sun-warmed, sleepy show of spring training.
Fiction, from 1976: “Asking questions was ‘being tiresome,’ while persistent curiosity got one nowhere, at least nowhere of interest.”
Mark Singer sits down with the magician Ricky Jay, whose illusions flout reality, and who rejects the idea that magic is a suitable entertainment for children.