PROFILE of Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl. In 1904, she left the stage and opened a decorating shop. The future Lady Mendl knew the wealthy, knew the women, …
This Week in History
January 8-14
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
97 articles from this week
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Fiction, from 1943: Mrs. Wilson was just taking the gingerbread out of the oven when she heard Johnny outside talking to someone.
Part 2 of a Profile by Robert Rice, from 1958: How the visionary behind “West Side Story” became the director of the New York Philharmonic—which he has been known to conduct, radically, without a baton.
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about alcohol, discussing the various symptoms of the hangover; fatigue, headache, thirst, vertigo, and nausea. Fatigue, like pain & …
Just as Reagan was widely being written off as irrelevant, as a lame-duck President merely serving out his last days, the recent summit meeting here with …
Bob Kearns and his patented windshield wiper have been winning millions of dollars in settlements from the auto industry, and forcing the issue of who owns…