PROFILE of French fashion designer Paul Poiret. Born and bred in the heart of bourgeois Paris, traditionally educated in one of the capital’s old …
This Week in History
October 21-27
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
97 articles from this week
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Profile of George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff.
Fiction, from 1943: “There’s plenty wrong,” the blind man said. “When people steal from a guy that doesn’t know what’s going on, there’s plenty wrong.”
Writing in 1962, John Bainbridge tells the story of the Berlin Wall’s first year—and of the East Germans who tried to run, drive, swim, and tunnel to the other side.
PROFILE of film maker Jean-Luc Godard. Writer talks to Godard at his home and studio in Grenoble. Describes both places. Godard talks about making films …
Janet Malcolm writes about Ingrid Sischy, the editor of Artforum magazine.