Fiction, from 1929: “The pale young man eased himself carefully into the low chair, and rolled his head to the side, so that the cool chintz comforted his cheek and temple.”
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February 19-25
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
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Fanatic, celibate, vegetarian. Janet Flanner’s 1936 Profile of the man who brought the Nazis to power.
Fiction, from 1955: On a farm by the Zambezi River, a woman experiences a return of the locusts—rust-colored creatures that invade the crops like smoke or a bad storm, devastating the landscape.
Part 2 of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on the “banality of evil” and the trial of the former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust.
Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 profile of Johnny Carson. “I once asked a bright young Manhattan journalist whether he could define in a single word what made television different from theatre or cinema. ‘For good or ill,’ he said, ‘Carson.’ ”
Ian Frazier profiles Poncé Cruse Evans, the Texas-born author of “Hints from Heloise,” an international household-hints column, founded by her mother, Heloise, in 1959.