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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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On The Way To School
John Updike · Fiction · January 5

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…

THE LEAVES OF A TREE
Winthrop Sargeant · Profiles · January 12

PROFILE of Mme. Rosina Lhevinne, pianist, teacher, and wife of the late Josef Lhevinne. Mme. Lhevinne is almost solely responsible for Cliburn's …

Our Invisible Poor
Dwight Macdonald · Books · January 19

BOOKS review of Michael Harrington’s “The Other America.”

A SCIENTIST'S ADVICE
Daniel Lang · Profiles · January 26

PROFILE OF Jerome B. Wiesner, President Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Wiesner hopes that every Secretary will appoint an …

The Skier's Progress
Thomas Williams · Fiction · February 2

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…

B altimore
Julian Mazor · Fiction · February 9

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 …

Eichmann in Jerusalem—I
Hannah Arendt · A Reporter at Large · February 16

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.

Eichmann in Jerusalem—II
Hannah Arendt · A Reporter at Large · February 23

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.

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—III
Hannah Arendt · A Reporter at Large · March 2

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 …

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—IV
Hannah Arendt · A Reporter at Large · March 9

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…

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—V
Hannah Arendt · A Reporter at Large · March 16

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 …

Triangle Within Circle
Vladimir Nabokov · Fiction · March 23

The writer tells of the relations between Yasha, Rudolf, and Olya, three students with whom he attended Berlin University. Yasha, in his diary, described …

A THING AMONG THINGS.
· Profiles · March 30

PROFILE of Richard Lippold, sculptor. Lately architects have been trying to involve artists and sculptors in their new buildings. Richard Lippold is the …

A DAY ON THE RIVER
Berton Roueché · A Reporter at Large · April 6

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
Emily Hahn · Fiction · April 13

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 …

ENEMY OF GEMUTLICHKEIT
Joseph Wechsberg · Profiles · April 20

PROFILE of the Viennese actor, playwright, mimic, philosopher, nonconformist, & congenital oppositionist, who, with a collaborator named Carl Merz, wrote …

CHANGEOVER IN TANGANYIKA.
Emily Hahn · A Reporter at Large · April 27

REPORTER AT LARGE about Tanganyika, a former British possession that was granted its independence in 1961. After a transitional phase it formally became a …

ORLANDO IN MOUNT KISCO
Winthrop Sargeant · Profiles · May 4

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," …

THE EKISTIC WORLD
Christopher Rand · Profiles · May 11

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 …

THE ROAD THROUGH GRANITE AND DARKNESS.
Joseph Wechsberg · A Reporter at Large · May 18

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mont Blanc Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, almost 8 miles long, between Chamoix, France and Courmayeur, Italy. …

They Could Have Danced All Night, And Did
St. Clair McKelway · Fiction · May 25

(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 …

A Summer On The Dales
Edmund Ward · Fiction · June 1

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 Number Of Love Is Always Odd
Naomi Bliven · Fiction · June 8

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 …

Five Minutes Before Sleep
William Wertenbaker · Fiction · June 15

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 …

The Day J.F.K. Set the Civil Rights Act in Motion
Calvin Trillin · Comment · June 22

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.

The Profumo Affair
Mollie Panter-Downes · Letter from London · June 29

Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

Where Is The Voice Coming From?
Eudora Welty · Fiction · July 6

A short story by Eudora Welty, depicting the murderous perspective of a white supremacist.

A Leave-Taking
Shirley Hazzard · Fiction · July 13

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…

The Quick Conclave That Elected Pope Paul VI
Xavier Rynne · Letter from Vatican City · July 20

Xavier Rynne reports on the election of Cardinal Montini as Pope Paul VI, in 1963, during the Second Vatican Council.

III- AN EDUCATION IN GEORGIA.
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · July 27

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 …

A Collision in the City
Faith McNulty · Fiction · August 3

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 …

Starting All Over Again
A. J. Liebling · The Sporting Scene · August 10

THE SPORTING SCENE about the return match between Charles (Sonny) Liston & Floyd Patterson July 22, at Las Vegas. Last Sept., Liston won the heavyweight …

One Day In The Life of James Hoover
James Hoover · Fiction · August 17

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…

A Trip Into The Blue
Richard Berczeller · Fiction · August 24

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…

The Piano Player
Donald Barthelme · Fiction · August 31

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…

The Hours Before “I Have a Dream”
Calvin Trillin · The Talk of the Town · September 7

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.

THE LAST SKILL ACQUIRED
· A Reporter at Large · September 14

REPORTER AT LARGE about reading, language and speech problems in children (dyslexia), and about Dr. William S. Langford's theory that flexibility is …

VOOMERA HAS IT!
· Profiles · September 21

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 …

ENCOUNTERS IN BARRIOS
Robert Shaplen · A Reporter at Large · September 28

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 …

HORS CONCOURS
Joseph Wechsberg · Profiles · October 5

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 …

Child Labor & the Presbyterians
St. Clair McKelway · Fiction · October 12

The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. …

THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE
Jeremy Bernstein · Profiles · October 19

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 …

Four Taverns in the Town
Roger Angell · The Sporting Scene · October 26

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…

October 23
Janet Flanner · Letter from Paris · November 2

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 …

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS II-LENINGRAD.
Ralph Blum · A Reporter at Large · November 9

REPORTER AT LARGE about attending further rehearsals, in Leningrad, of "The Fifth Column", a play by Ernest Hemingway, being produced by the Contemporary …

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS III-MOSCOW.
Ralph Blum · A Reporter at Large · November 16

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 …

CONCLAVE AT FROBISHER
Edith Iglauer · A Reporter at Large · November 23

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. …

After the Assassination of J.F.K.
Donald Malcolm · Comment · November 30

Donald Malcolm, E. B. White, and Lillian Ross pay tribute to President John F. Kennedy in the aftermath of his death.

On the Lack of Sleep
Muriel Spark · Poems · December 7

Lying on the roof of everything, I listen

Burglary - II
Susan Black · A Reporter at Large · December 14

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 …

THE PEACEABLE GYPSIES
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · December 21

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 …

The Man Behind the Beatles
Thomas Whiteside · The Talk of the Town · December 28

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.”

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