Janet Flanner’s 1938 piece on Eugen Weidmann, the kidnapper and murderer who later became the last person to be publicly executed in France.
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January 29 - February 4
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Part 2 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “There was once a lion who coveted an eagle’s wings.”
Talk story from the fellow-citizen about his trip to Los Angeles. He went out there to attend a memorial service for Mr. Georges Gurdjiev, the mystic and …
James Stevenson’s 1980 profile of cult filmmaker John Carpenter. “People lie, cheat, and steal,” Carpenter said. “All the clichés about Hollywood have a basis in truth...But I live by my decision to make Hollywood films. I just don’t want to become one of them.”
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the growing tensions between the Islamic fundamentalists and Hosni Mubarak's government, and how Nobel Laureate Naguib …
Nicholas Lemann on the incredible rise of George W. Bush, an ordinary guy from Texas, in this Profile from 2000.