Gilbert Seldes’s 1931 Profile of a modest man in Hollywood, four years into the making of his impish, benevolent, four-fingered cartoon, Mickey Mouse.
This Week in History
December 9-15
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
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Comment on how people in N. Y. felt during the first days of war. There was some indignation, too; some things we were ashamed of: an heiress anxious to …
Fiction, from 1944: “Emily had known for some time who was taking the things, but it was only tonight that she had decided what to do.”
E. J. Kahn’s 1960 Profile of Theodor Seuss Geisel—a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.
Thomas Whiteside on how anti-smoking activists killed the cigarette advertisement.
Fiction by Donald Barthelme: My wife has been wanting a dog for a long time. I have had to be the one to tell her that she couldn’t have it. But now the baby wants a dog, my wife says.