Part 2 of Anthony Bailey’s 1977 Profile looks at life inside and outside the Palace during the first twenty-five years of her reign.
This Week in History
April 15-21
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
100 articles from this week
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When activists accused the behavioral scientist Edward Taub of needlessly torturing captive primates at Silver Spring, a long legal battle called into question the motives of crusaders on both sides.
Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering thirty-three boys.
From 2000: “The people who will be coming tonight and tomorrow night to Les Halles, a restaurant on Park Avenue South where I work as the chef, aren’t like the people who come during the week,” Anthony Bourdain writes.
The far-flung adventures of a tugboating family.
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Sarah Stillman reports.