This Week in History
April 8-14
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
101 articles from this week
Featured Pick
Also Notable
In a piece published during the Great Depression, Dorothy Day writes about giving food to an out-of-work man with a wooden leg.
PROFILE of Elmer Wheeler, head of the Tested Selling Institute, 521-5th Ave. He works out Tested Selling Sentences or, finds the "sizzle" in a product. Mr.…
Joseph Mitchell’s classic 1940 story about McSorley’s Old Ale House, which opened in 1854 and remains one of the oldest bars in the city.
Fiction, from 1950: Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me.
Robert Price’s Profile of the comedians Mike Nichols and Elaine May.