This Week in History

September 2-8

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

99 articles from this week

Featured Pick

“What Happens After That”

Russell Maloney · Profiles · September 10, 1938

Russell Maloney’s 1938 Profile of the film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Also Notable

“Extraordinary Exile”

Rebecca West · A Reporter at Large · September 7, 1946

Rebecca West’s 1946 report from the Nuremberg trials.

“OLD EIGHT EIGHTY III”

St. Clair McKelway · Annals of Crime · September 10, 1949

ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeiters. The most sought-after counterfeiter there has ever been in this country was one called OldEight Eighty by the Secret …

“Ten Feet Tall”

Berton Roueché · Annals of Medicine · September 10, 1955

ANNALS OF MEDICINE about cortisone and ACTH. Case history of a periarteritis modosa sufferer, A N.Y. school teacher named Robert Laurence. Were it nor for …

“The World Cup”

Alastair Reid · The Sporting Scene · September 10, 1966

THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1966 competition for the World Cup in soccer (football), won by England, which was also the host country. The competition was …

“Strangers in Hollywood”

Joan Didion · Letter from Los Angeles · September 5, 1988

The author on her experience of California earthquakes, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, and the question of houses in the city—and what they are worth.