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This Week in History

February 12-18

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

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This Old Man
Roger Angell · Onward and Outward ·

Roger Angell writes about life after ninety: “I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.”

Mister Nabakov
Hannah Green · Fiction ·

Toward the end of the Second World War and after it for three or four years. Vladimir Nabokov taught at Wellesley College, where I was a student. He taught…