This Week in History

July 8-14

The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.

95 articles from this week

Featured Pick

“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Slow Rise to American Fame”

Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · July 19, 1930

Alexander Woollcott on the modern architect’s early work, including the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, and his home at Taliesin, in Wisconsin, and his belated rise to fame in America.

Also Notable

“Cross-Channel Trip—III”

A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · July 15, 1944

REPORTER AT LARGE. Recapitulation of D Day happenings. D Day-plus-one activities, that of unloading soldiers from a big troopship several miles off the …

“The Revel of the Earth”

Mary McCarthy · Profiles · July 14, 1956

The second in a three-part series of articles, by Mary McCarthy, about Venice.

“The Village of Ben Suc”

Jonathan Schell · A Reporter at Large · July 15, 1967

Jonathan Schell’s 1967 report from a Vietnamese village.

“Cary Grant, the Man from Dream City”

Pauline Kael · Profiles · July 14, 1975

Pauline Kael’s 1975 Profile of Cary Grant, the star of movies including “Bringing Up Baby,” “The Awful Truth,” “North by Northwest,” “Charade,” and "His Girl Friday.”

“Dream Pictures”

Kenzaburo Oe · Fiction · July 13, 1998

During a typhoon, a father and his young son, who suffers from seizures, think about death and dreaming, in this short story from 1998.