The writer’s 1927 short story imagines that, for authors, all press is good press—especially if the Boston police declare one’s book obscene.
This Week in History
June 24-30
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
93 articles from this week
Featured Pick
Also Notable
Helena Huntington Smith profiles Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for access to birth control.
Margaret Case Harriman profiles the artist at work on his surrealist funhouse “Dream of Venus” for the 1939 World’s Fair.
Reflections by Gypsy Rose Lee, from 1943: “Teachers for my sister June and me were Mother’s greatest problem when we were touring the country as a child vaudeville act.”
Joseph Mitchell’s 1952 piece about the seafood restaurant Sloppy Louie’s and its contemplative proprietor, Louis Morino.
Part III of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.