This Week in History
April 29 - May 5
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
89 articles from this week
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Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of the influential and controversial choreographer Merce Cunningham explores his signature style of movement and his impact on modern dance.
Fiction, from 1982: “I had no name for the thing I had become, so new was it to me.”
Short story about a mother who son's best friend goes missing after her own family moves from L.A. to Colorado... Ann Ponders' husband and son had…
Janet Malcolm on how the counsel for Mazoltuv Borukhova and Mikhail Mallayev, who were tried for the murder of Borukhova’s husband, shaped a dramatic trial.
Fiction by Allan Gurganus: “The doctor was soon the only person brave or fool enough to duck under the orange quarantine ropes, ignoring warning signs he himself had nailed to the doors of those farmhouses worst hit.”