Famous author received letter & gifts from an unknown admirer--Elizabeth Abigail de Sollar who wrote in the letter that his books had helped her "find" …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1975
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1975 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Whitney Balliett (3)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
PROFILE of Robert Wilson, playwright, and detailed examination of his recent play, "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin", put on last winter at the …
New Glarus, Wis. emphasizes its Swiss heritage in order to draw tourists. The promotion that helped increase the tourist traffic mostly dramatically in the…
It has often been said that without Judge Sirica's courage & independence the essential story of Watergate would never have been told. But it can also …
Talk story from the fellow-citizen about his trip to Los Angeles. He went out there to attend a memorial service for Mr. Georges Gurdjiev, the mystic and …
Diary form parody of Ned Rorem's diaries. Rorem's most recent book is, "The Final Diary, 1961-1972." The parody is of a young narcissitic composer …
Spoof of a scientific treatise based on anthropological study of the Oya people in the Oya Valley. Writer tells of the difficulty in observing the Oya: …
REPORTER AT LARGE about bark canoes & Henri Vaillancourt, of Greenville, N.H., who builds them entirely by hand the way the American Indians did. He built …
Pauline Kael on the ultimate Altman movie, from 1975: In “Nashville,” the director has evolved an organic style of moviemaking that tells a story without the clanking of plot.
Michael J. Arlen on the mysteriously mass fascination with Norman Lear shows—and how “All in the Family” got America to deal regularly with racism.
U. S. JOURNAL: MIAMI BEACH about Harvey St. Jean, the top criminal lawyer in Miami Beach, who was shot to death in his car on Dec. 11, 1974. Tells about …
PROFILE of Henri Langlois, 61, film historian & collector, & founder of the great Cinematheque Francaise, through which he is the father of the middle …
PROFILE of jazz guitarist Jim Hall. Hall and bass player Jack Six will be performing together in April at Sweet Basil, on 7th Ave. Writer interviewed …
Writer reminisces about Russian "bagasz" (baggage). His great interest in "bagasz" developed when he was 5 1/2 yrs. old on a return trip to his native …
REPORTER AT LARGE about credit-reporting abuses of the consumer-investigation industry. Reports are compiled & disseminated on applicants for various kinds…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about a 19-day visit to North Vietnam taken by the writer & 3 American companions - all had been invited. Tells about the atmosphere in…
PROFILE of Nam June Paik, 43, a pioneer in video art, who is now an artist-in-residence at WNET'S Television Laboratory & a consultant on TV to the …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about plans to build a floating nuclear power plant off the New Jersey coast. The plant was conceived in 1969 by Richard Eckert, an …
Lengthy mention in REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Walter Frederick Mondale, 45, a Democratic senator from Minnesota. He talked about the federal…
George W. S. Trow profiles the former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, as she prepares a fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, titled “Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design.”
Jonathan Schell recounts the bombing of Cambodia, the massive student protests, a growing anti-Vietnam War movement, and civil-rights issues.
PROFILE of Betty Parsons, 75, N.Y. art dealer. The Betty Parsons Gallery is at 24 W. 57 St. Describes her 29-year history as an independent art dealer; the…
Carmela, a 12-year-old Italian girl, leaves home for the first time to go to the Ligurian coast, where there is a large Anglo-American colony, to be a …
Roger Angell on the Pirates’ star pitcher Steve Blass, who retired at thirty-three owing to two years of mysterious pitching—a sudden, near-total inability to throw strikes.
The soccer king, lured from Brazil by a multimillion-dollar deal, plays his first game for the New York Cosmos, Anthony Hiss wrote, in 1975.
Hendrik Hertzberg writes about a Rolling Stones concert at Madison Square Garden in 1975.
Pauline Kael’s 1975 Profile of Cary Grant, the star of movies including “Bringing Up Baby,” “The Awful Truth,” “North by Northwest,” “Charade,” and "His Girl Friday.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about debate over a U.S. energy program. OPEC continued to raise oil prices &this has had a harmful effect on our economy & balance of …
PROFILE of French chef, Michel Guerard, noted for his novel approach to cooking which he calls la cuisine minceur. He plans to open a restaurant in …
PROFILE of 49-yr.-old John Crosby, founder & General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, which every summer presents the most sophisticated opera in America. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Japan's social, political and economic development from the mid-1950's to present. It began to rebuild its industry in the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Senator Edward Kennedy. Four speeches Kennedy made, and the questions & answers following are quoted at length. On May 1, in …
Forty-five-year-old Albert is living by himself in an apartment, while going through the process of getting a divorce from his wife Violet. He is always …
(Items the "Times" follow-up has not yet followed up on) Among four other items: Flying High: Hang-glider enthusiast Glenn Wassfossler, 17, "took off" from…
PROFILE of the House of Baedeker, German travel-book publishers. Today company is headed by the founder's great grandson, Karl Friedrich Baedeker & the…
PROFILE of Carmen Santana (fictitious name), a welfare mother. She lives in a 4-room apt. in the Williamsburg section of Bklyn., with the 4 children she …
PROFILE of Robert Freitas, 57, who, since 1961, has been one of two field representatives (the Western one) for the National Association of Professional …
PROFILE of physicist I.I. Rabi, now 77, professor emeritus of Columbia University's Physics Dept. The Dept., with its galaxy of Nobel Prize winners, …
PROFILE of physicist I.I. Rabi. Tells about radar. Real breakthrough began early in 1940 in Britain. A British technical mission came here & by Nov. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip on the Meramec River and on a white-water tributary called Courtois Creek, in Crawford County, Missouri, in the foothills of…
The writer describes the four-decade long friendship between her mother, Mrs. Scofield and Albert Ashton Berg, the famous surgeon and book collector. Both …
In 1999, space explorers discovered life within Jupiter on a planet they dubbed, Minerva. The inhabitants, known as Minervans, were cylindrically shaped …
Roger Angell on the brilliance of 1975’s Boston-Cincinnati games.
Michael J. Arlen’s 1975 review of “an appealing new comedy program called ‘Saturday Night.’ ”
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the new all-volunteer Army. Writer talks to Prof. Charles Moskos, Jr., chairman of the Dept. of Sociology at Northwestern …
The narrator frequents a riverside park bounded by an expressway. Across the river are factories, gas tanks and wharves. In midwinter, the narrator stands …
PROFILE of Harvey Phillips, virtuoso tubist and professor of music at Indiana University. Many of Phillips' colleagues rank him as the finest living …
REPORTER AT LARGE about herring fishing off Scotland's North Sea coast. The herring industy's center is at Mallaig, a small fishing port in …
A short story by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabakov, exploring memory and mourning during the Christmas holiday season.