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
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Writing in 1940, Mollie Panter-Downes reports on the fortitude of Londoners during German air raids.
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 …
Joseph Mitchell’s 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the chairman of the board of the African Methodist church in Sandy Ground, Staten Island.
Katharine S. White pays tribute to the English gardener Gertrude Jekyll, “the beautifier of England,” while seed shopping for the autumn season.
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.