This Week in History

September 16-22

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

101 articles from this week

Featured Pick

“"A Bootlegger's Story I. How I started”

· No Department · September 25, 1926

When prohibition law passed I was waiter at Sherry's. Wife saved money earned in other days and opened beauty parlor. Man followed me home, said …

Also Notable

“Living Through the Blitz”

Mollie Panter-Downes · Letter from London · September 21, 1940

Writing in 1940, Mollie Panter-Downes reports on the fortitude of Londoners during German air raids.

“The Boys in Maroon”

Philip Hamburger · A Reporter at Large · September 25, 1943

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island. The wounded are taken there as soon as they arrive in this country and …

“Mr. Hunter’s Grave”

Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · September 22, 1956

Joseph Mitchell’s 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the chairman of the board of the African Methodist church in Sandy Ground, Staten Island.

“War on the Borders: Peace in the Shrubbery”

Katharine S. White · Onward and Upward with the Arts · September 24, 1960

Katharine S. White pays tribute to the English gardener Gertrude Jekyll, “the beautifier of England,” while seed shopping for the autumn season.

“Something You’ll Remember Always”

Shirley Hazzard · Fiction · September 17, 1979

Fiction, from 1979: After their parents are drowned in a capsized ferry, two sisters in Australia move with their half sister, Dora, to a house by the sea.