In this classic Profile of Edith Wharton, Janet Flanner writes about the novelist’s friendships, her ethics, her travels, and her flowers.
This Week in History
February 26 - March 3
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
92 articles from this week
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Virgilia Peterson Ross on how the shy, Stockholm-born actress sailed bitterly toward Hollywood glory.
Fanciful story about a man who was in love with his secretary and decided to get rid of his wife in order to marry the secretary. Comes home and tells his …
Fiction, from 1944: “I guess we know about as much about Bob as you do by now,” Helen said.
A. J. Liebling writes about Muhammad Ali’s pugilistic poetry and his professional début in New York.
Whitney Balliett on the brilliance of the jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker.