Joseph Mitchell on the nine-year-old pianist and composer Philippa Duke Schuyler—a prodigy who reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, plays poker, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
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August 26 - September 1
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
92 articles from this week
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REPORTER AT LARGE about experiences in a U. S. Army hospital. Being admitted to an Army hospital is a little like taking the subway during the rush hours -…
Fiction, from 1943: Mrs. Lennon took the envelope and the papers and held them out to Harriet. “Will you read them or shall I?” she asked kindly.
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.
Short story about a man, Fish, driving out to see his cousin Adam, who has just tried to commit suicide for the seventh time... Thre hours on I-5, a …
Jane Mayer on Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who pour a great deal of money into Tea Party efforts that attack Obama and environmentalism.