This Week in History
February 5-11
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
100 articles from this week
Featured Pick
Also Notable
William Whitworth’s 1970 Profile of Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. “A perfectionist in an imperfect world, he dreams of fried chicken so golden and delicious that it will bring tears to the eyes of a grown man.”
Renata Adler on watching “Days of Our Lives,” “Another World,” and other daytime soaps.
Jane Kramer on how a left-wing socialite created an intellectual salon that took over an entire building and ran for forty years.
For fifty years, the comedian played the perfect putz, James Kaplan writes. His act was chaotic—and so was his life in show biz.
Short story about a man from Ventura, California who looks after two women who are convinced they are being stalked by a killer.