This Week in History

November 25 - December 1

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

101 articles from this week

Featured Pick

“People Want to Hear Things about Ernest Hemingway”

Dorothy Parker · Profiles · November 30, 1929

Dorothy Parker has the devastating task of describing the greatest—and most gossiped-about—writer of the day, in this Profile from 1929.

Also Notable

“Albert Einstein, Scientist and Mob Idol”

Alva Johnston · Profiles · December 2, 1933

Alva Johnston on how the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein—who, before publishing his theory of relativity, had been almost a recluse—came to tolerate his popularity.

“Hawkins Is Inside”

Berton Roueché · A Reporter at Large · November 30, 1946

Berton Roueché on female night-club photographers in the nineteen-forties.

“Letter from the East”

E. B. White · Letter from the East · December 3, 1960

Writing in 1960, E. B. White reflects on the rise of TV advertising and its effects on politics, journalism, and culture.

“Early Voice I—A. Philip Randolph’s Radical Harlem”

Jervis Anderson · Profiles · December 2, 1972

Part 1 of Jervis Anderson’s Profile of the activist, who founded the country’s first Black labor union, vied with Marcus Garvey, and led the March on Washington, where M.L.K. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

“The Impossible Profession—I”

Janet Malcolm · Profiles · November 24, 1980

Janet Malcolm profiles a Manhattan therapist as he reflects on what Freudian therapy can—and cannot—achieve.