PROFILE of Temple Hornaday Fielding, travel-guide writer. In the first 16 years of the "Travel Guide" (from 1948 through '63), Fielding called the …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1968
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1968 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Joseph Wechsberg (4)
Most featured section: Fiction
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The writer tells of a mansion on L.I. where 7 children live. She describes a day in January - the children laughing and falling in the snow. They fall, …
Mark Fabbri, a 1st generation Italian American, is 32, single, & a research biologist at the Conn. Marine Laboratories. Lately he has been suffering from …
REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa. Every Jan. Parliament meets for a six-month session in Cape Town. There are two branches of Parliament: the House of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about South West Africa, once a German colony, given to Britain after the 1st World War, and then turned over to the Union of S. Africa. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa, particularly the life of the non-whites. There are 12 1/2 million, outnumbering the whites almost 4 to 1. Taken as a …
Mr. Edom, of the Abbey Antique Galleries, has come upon a fine pair of duelling pistols which he wishes to show to Mrs. Vibart, a renowned firearms expert.…
Parody on "Games People Play" - a study of adult behavior by Dr. Eric Berne. The theory is that in each man and woman there resides a Baby Chimp (BC) an …
Talk story about Sen. Eugene McCarthy's visit to New York on Feb. 16. (He hopes to get the Democratic nomination to run for President next fall). He …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. military operation called Task Force Oregon, begun in the spring of 1967, operating principally in Quang Ngai province. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about U.S. military operations in S. Vietnam carried out by Task Force Oregon. From Aug. 13 to 28, 1967, the 1st Brigade of the 101st …
In response to Dr. Desmond Morris's "The Naked Ape," and other books which emphasize the similarities of man and beast, the author attempts to …
John Lionel is 10 years old and recovering from a serious bout with pneumonia. Right before he got sick John was expelled from school, but as an incentive …
PROFILE of Euell Theophilus Gibbons, who has written 4 books on the gathering & preparation of wild food. He lives & writes in a farmhouse near …
REPORTER AT LARGE about air pollution. N. Y. has the most severe air-pollution in the U. S., but it air is still not as dirty as that of London, which has …
When Alfred met Catherine he was in his late thirties and had recently left his first wife. He was a base-ball player from the East, a dandy and a ladies …
The writer reminisces about her artist parents, both of whom are dead. She recalls her worldly looking mother, who was easily scandalized, but never turned…
Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of the influential and controversial choreographer Merce Cunningham explores his signature style of movement and his impact on modern dance.
REPORTER AT LARGE about life in a poor section of Rome around a piazza called Campo de' Fiori. Writer lived for several weeks in an apt. on the 4th …
PROFILE of Elvin Jones, the jazz drummer, describes a jazz session at Pookie's Pub. A juke box played Billie Holiday singing "My Yiddishe Mama." The …
The writer wonders about his father. He reflects on their similarities and wonders if he will be as strange to his son when he is old, as his father is to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Kumbha mela at Prayaga which author attended. It is the largest religious assemblage on earth with sometimes millions of …
It is the night of the Policemen's Ball. Horace, a policeman, is baking Rock Cornish Hens and wondering if Margot will "put out" tonight. Margot comes …
Paul Brodeur and James Stevenson describe the atmosphere at St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the wake for Robert F. Kennedy, the U.S. senator from New York and the leading Democratic Presidential candidate who was assassinated on June 5, 1968.
PROFILE of Robert Twynam headkeeper of the lawns at Wimbledon. In 1967, the defending tennis champion was Manuel Santana in the draw was Charles Pasarell, …
Parody of the Post, the Daily News, and The New York Times, in the form of a series of excerpts from a Monday city edition of these ostensibly merged …
Past conversations between Arthur Rose and Edward Darcy, a booze artist who was formerly married to Rose's wife and is the father of Rose's two …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the investigation of the murder of Pres. Kennedy, conducted by Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana. At…
Short story. Mr. William Mosby was in Oaxaca on a Guggenheim grant to write his memoirs. As he sat sipping mescal on the mountainside patio, he pondered on…
Jacob R. Brackman on Mike Nichols’ film, starring Dustin Hoffman.
PROFILE of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, the stars of N.B.C's popular evening news broadcast, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report." The writer discusses …
A 1968 Profile of the owner, publisher of the New York Post, from 1939 to 1976.
Jane Kramer’s Profile of the poet Allen Ginsberg, at work planning the 1967 “Human Be-In” at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
PROFILE of poet Allen Ginsberg. Describes Ginsberg's trials and tribulations at Columbia College and a scandal in his senior year involving Herbert …
REPORTER AT LARGE about spending a day in the Big Thicket of East Texas, the remai ns of a three-million-acre bog-bayou wilderness. The guide Lance Rosier …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock & four other defendants charged with conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet draftable men to avoid …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about New York harbor pilots. There are two sorts. One is the docking pilot, who boards a large ship near her pier, and, commanding one…
Mavis Gallant’s account of the student strikes and police violence that played out in the streets of Paris, in 1968: “We are all living in a future, in something that has not taken place.”
PROFILE of Vienna. The earliest document of the city is 1137. The Hapsburgs came to power in 1278 & flourished. The city was always famous for good living …
This story was inspired by 2 news items, one describing an allergic reaction to work, and the other warning of an epidemic of work addiction. The narrator …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. For the first time in years travel restrictions had been lifted in Czechoslovakia, and it …
Xavier Rynne on the Pope’s 1968 encyclical on birth control.
Occasionally, while surrounded by his boisterous children and his wife, he would do something extraordinary, like eating a pear with a fork and knife. What…
St. Clair McKelway profiles the dedicated imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Indonesia, a former Dutch colonial empire of more than a hundred million people living on an enormous archipelago of three thousand…
PROFILE of the American Museum of Natural History. Morris K. Jesup became the Museum's third president in 1881. He put the Museum on its feet. When he …
PROFILE of the American Museum of Natural History, Roy Chapman Andrews, born in Beloit, Wis., was the Museum's most celebrated staff explorer. He was a…
Richard Harris on Congress’s 1968 passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, of 1968, commonly called the Crime Bill: “a piece of demagoguery devised in malevolence and enacted in hysteria,” he writes.
Story inspired by London Times article about the discovery of truffles in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana, formerly Bechuanaland. The author had met Monk …
PROFILE of Red Norvo, jazz musician. He plays the vibraharp, a name coined by the Deagan Co., who invented the instrument in 1927, & still supplies him …