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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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On the House
Shirley Jackson · Fiction ·

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.”

Die Mauer
John Bainbridge · Profiles ·

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.