Profile of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose entry into dressmaking was an accident. It came when after a five year trial of American life, she was still testing …
This Week in History
June 10-16
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
94 articles from this week
Featured Pick
Also Notable
Part 2 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine. Converts to the Harlem preacher’s Peace Movement were promised a better life—with a few stipulations.
Meyer Berger’s 1938 look at the technology, history, and culture of eavesdropping.
John Hersey’s account of how, during the Second World War, J.F.K. battled to save the crew of PT-109 while adrift in the South Pacific.
PROFILE OF THE SEA The first chart of the Gulf Stream was prepared about 1769, under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, while he was Deputy Postmaster …
Maeve Brennan reports on an eventful first day back in New York City.