This Week in History

September 30 - October 6

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

101 articles from this week

Featured Pick

Dorothy Parker · Fiction · October 8, 1927

A classic short story by Dorothy Parker, in which a partygoer’s introduction to the guest of honor becomes a nervous attempt to deal with racism.

Also Notable

“This Ageless Soul”

Russell Maloney · Profiles · October 8, 1938

From 1938: Russell Maloney’s Profile of Orson Welles, then a twenty-three-year-old wunderkind of New York theatre.

“Ahab and Nemesis”

A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · October 8, 1955

A. J. Liebling on a classic prizefight between Rocky Marciano and Archie Moore.

“The Morest”

A. J. Liebling · The Sporting Scene · October 6, 1962

THE SPORTING SCENE about the heavyweight championship fight in Chicago, between Floyd Patterson, (defending his title), & Charles (Sonny) Liston. Liston …

“Making a Noise in the World—I”

Brendan Gill · Profiles · October 7, 1972

Part 1 of Brendan Gill’s classic Profile of the legendary film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead, exploring her Alabama upbringing, the garden parties, which inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” that she attended as a young actress, and her rise to fame in nineteen-twenties London.

“Quis”

Roger Angell · Profiles · September 30, 1985

Roger Angell on the Kansas City Royals submariner whose pitch invited more similes than stats.