Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a mass shooter with a tragic past.
This Week in History
February 12-18
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
100 articles from this week
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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.”
Part 3 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star.”
Janet Flanner’s classic 1943 Profile of the candid-as-glass Hollywood star Bette Davis.
Thomas Whiteside on the pioneering producer who brought reality to television.
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…