The story of one early morning in the writer's life, pains takingly described. He is a teen-ager, very reluctant to get up on this cold winter day. His…
Best New Yorker Articles of 1963
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1963 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Hannah Arendt (5)
Most featured section: Fiction
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PROFILE of Mme. Rosina Lhevinne, pianist, teacher, and wife of the late Josef Lhevinne. Mme. Lhevinne is almost solely responsible for Cliburn's …
BOOKS review of Michael Harrington’s “The Other America.”
PROFILE OF Jerome B. Wiesner, President Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Wiesner hopes that every Secretary will appoint an …
The writer describes several people who are staying at the Mountain View, a ski lodge in New England. Japhet Villard, his daughter Margaret, & his grandson…
On a previous visit to Washington, D.C., the writer had made friends with four Negroes-Ringo, Tracy, Billy, and Ruby-in a grocery store. Now he returns to …
Part 1 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.
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.
REPORTER AT LARGE, continued, about the Eichmann trial. The Nazi plan to physically exterminate the Jews of Europe was known as the "Final Solution". In …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, former Nazi official, accused of playing a principal role in the Nazi program to exterminate…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial in Israel of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. This section deals with his capture in Argentina by Israeli Secret Service and then …
The writer tells of the relations between Yasha, Rudolf, and Olya, three students with whom he attended Berlin University. Yasha, in his diary, described …
PROFILE of Richard Lippold, sculptor. Lately architects have been trying to involve artists and sculptors in their new buildings. Richard Lippold is the …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Writer tells of spending a day on the Current River in the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri with Lee Beck & Leonard Hall. The Current …
Theresa is a Tanganyikan who comes to London to learn English, as her husband has been recently appointed to a government post and will have to entertain …
PROFILE of the Viennese actor, playwright, mimic, philosopher, nonconformist, & congenital oppositionist, who, with a collaborator named Carl Merz, wrote …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Tanganyika, a former British possession that was granted its independence in 1961. After a transitional phase it formally became a …
PROFILE of the Italian-born operatic composer Gian Carlo Menotti whose operas are well known to a large section of the international public. "The Consul," …
PROFILE of Constantinos Doxiados, a Greek, teacher, architect and city planner, who seems to have come up with the most popular answer this far to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, almost 8 miles long, between Chamoix, France and Courmayeur, Italy. …
(A Handy, All-Purpose Column On The Dance For Amateurs Of That Art Who Find It Unfeasible To Lift Their Sunday "Times" Or "Herald Tribune" From Vestibule …
The writer recalls working in an isolated logging camp in the high northeast of England, in 1946, after the war. He had been a miner for 4 years of the …
The writer explains that no one in her house understands their role. There are 5 in her family -- the writer, her husband, their 2 Siamese cats, & their …
A young man enumerates the objects in a room at a summer place in Maine. He has slept in this room every summer of his life. This is the last time because …
Calvin Trillin writes that President John F. Kennedy’s nationally televised Report to the American People on Civil Rights, from June 11, 1963, was the first time since Brown v. Board of Education, nine years prior, that a President publicly reminded the country of its moral commitment to equality.
Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
A short story by Eudora Welty, depicting the murderous perspective of a white supremacist.
Clem appeases his wife, May, when she learns of his affair with her young cousin, Nettie. Then he goes to see Nettie. He tells her he sees now that when he…
Xavier Rynne reports on the election of Cardinal Montini as Pope Paul VI, in 1963, during the Second Vatican Council.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the desegregation of the University of Georgia, which took place in Jan., 1961, with the admission of two Negro students from …
The writer's sister was ready to leave Lenox Hill Hospital with a new-born baby; the writer planned to accompany her in a taxi to Grand Central & see …
THE SPORTING SCENE about the return match between Charles (Sonny) Liston & Floyd Patterson July 22, at Las Vegas. Last Sept., Liston won the heavyweight …
The writer recounts his experiences during a day as an employee at the American Labor Department in Washington, D.C., and compares it to the description of…
The writer met two brothers, Otto and Bruno, in Paris in 1940 during the war. All three were from Austria. They reminisced about their lives in Austria and…
Surrealistic short story. The woman in the story remarked to her husband: "When you galloped into the University of Texas on your roan Volvo, I thought you…
Calvin Trillin describes the scene at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in 1963, up until the march reached the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his “I Have a Dream” speech.
REPORTER AT LARGE about reading, language and speech problems in children (dyslexia), and about Dr. William S. Langford's theory that flexibility is …
PROFILE of Dr. John R. Pierce, Exec. Dir. of Communications Research, of Bell Laboratories, and history of Project Echo of which he was the guiding …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the U. S. Peace Corps Volunteers, & an interview with two 22-year-old girls stationed in Panay in a miserable fishing village …
PROFILE of Mme. Marie-Louise Point, Fernand Point's widow who, since his death in 1955, has managed the famous Restaurant de la Pyramide. Seven years …
The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. …
PROFILE OF computers contains excerpts from Dr. Bowden's "Faster Than Thought," a book he published in 1953. Dr. Bowden is a member of the British …
THE SPORTING SCENE about the recent World Series. Writer watched the games on television in local bars. He quotes a poem he found framed on the wall in the…
Obituary of Edith Piaf who died at seven o'clock in the morning in Paris, and a few hours later on the same recent Friday her friend Jean Cocteau, in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about attending further rehearsals, in Leningrad, of "The Fifth Column", a play by Ernest Hemingway, being produced by the Contemporary …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the final rehearsals of the Moscow production of "The Fifth Column," by Ernest Hemingway, put on by a new group called the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1st Conference of the Arctic Cooperatives held at Frobisher Bay. Of the more than 30,000 Eskimos, 12,000 or so live in Canada. …
Donald Malcolm, E. B. White, and Lillian Ross pay tribute to President John F. Kennedy in the aftermath of his death.
Lying on the roof of everything, I listen
REPORTER AT LARGE about burglars & burglary tells about the burglarizing of the Blarney Castle, a bar-and-grill at 149 Church Street. The burglar had …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the so-called Pugwash Conference held this year at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Chat with Prof. Arne Engstrom, a Swede who is a cell …
A 1963 interview with the manager of the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—who brought the group from Liverpool to stardom and started Beatlemania with their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”