This Week in History
December 16-22
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
101 articles from this week
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Joseph Mitchell on the winter of 1933, when he was a newspaper reporter during the Great Depression and wrote a story about a couple who lived in a cave in Central Park for a year.
Joseph Mitchell’s 1940 Profile of the local celebrity with a “genuine fondness for bums.”
Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.
On one of the closing days of Vatican Council II, in St. Peter's, a joint declaration by the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, …