A Profile of baseball’s “bad boy,” from 1926: At thirty-two, the home-run king is erratic, impulsive, and—despite a slew of financial scandals—nearly a millionaire.
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July 22-28
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
101 articles from this week
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Calvin Tomkins on Gerald and Sara Murphy, the couple who inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night.”
Jacob R. Brackman on Mike Nichols’ film, starring Dustin Hoffman.
From 1982: Part 2 of E. J. Kahn, Jr.,’s Profile of the Sunday news program. With its star correspondents, including Mike Wallace, intrusive reporting, and theatrical touch, the Sunday news program attracts a mass audience—and a number of lawsuits.
Joan Didion on Lakewood, California, a once idyllic postwar town that fell under the sway of a teen-age gang.
Did the Bush Administration burn a useful source on Al Qaeda?