PROFILE of Michael Murphy, who with Richard Price, founded the Esalen-Institute in Big Sur, Calif, in 1962. In 1967 they began a San Francisco office, now …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1976
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1976 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Henry S. F. Cooper (4)
Most featured section: Fiction
Featured Picks
The writer tells the story of his siter's. marriage, which took place in 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee. She married a wealthy man from Memphis, Tolliver…
Fiction, from 1976: “What I craved at this point was not love, or romance, or a life added to mine, but conversation.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about Nell Fox, one of the best-known terrier breeders in the U.S. She is in her late sixties and has spent some 20 years trying to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the energy crisis. Begins with discussion of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and how they can be applied to determine …
Pauline Kael’s 1976 review of Martin Scorsese’s film “Taxi Driver,” starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster.
REPORTER AT LARGE about inefficient uses of energy and its economic ramifications. Tells about how the crisis in the U.S. Economy is a result of production…
PROFILE of the American Academy of Arts & Letters & the National Institute of Arts & Letters, located on Broadway, between 155 & 156 St. on Audubon …
Whitney Balliett on the brilliance of the jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker.
Ten excerpts with headings such as: The Slowest Hundred Yard Dash; The Least French Fries Eaten At One Sitting; The Shortest Song Ever Written; The Least …
Brian's 88 year old step-grandfather, Ike, lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with Brian's grandmother, Frieda. Brian and his wife of two years, Rhea, …
PROFILE of Predag Ilic (fictitious name), a Yugoslav migrant worker in Sweden. He lives with his wife Darinka & their 3 children in a Swedish factory town …
Hendrik Hertzberg on their quixotic battle to stay off network television.
Fiction, from 1976: “Asking questions was ‘being tiresome,’ while persistent curiosity got one nowhere, at least nowhere of interest.”
Two brothers, Edgar and Roy Elmore, opened Elmore's Court restaurant in 1919 in Minneapolis. They served six sandwiches and were immensely popular with…
Prince Philip has started an interior-decorating firm in his continuing efforts to express himself in his own way and not rely on his wife's fame for …
Story about the writer's early life as the adopted child of Jewish parents in a Midwestern town. He recalls his mother in her younger years, when she …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a 100-and-some-mile canoe trip down the St. John River in northern Maine. In late spring, Mike Moody, John Kauffmann, Tom Cabot, …
PROFILE of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma, meaning "great soul" was an honorific title). Writer travelled through India & to other places, beginning …
PROFILE of Gandhi. Tells about his early life in India; his education as a lawyer in England; his involvement with the vegetarian movement there; his …
PROFILE of Gandhi. Gandhi took the vow of brahmacharya, or celibacy, which among Hindus is considered the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the surest way of…
History was made last week at the annual Academy Awards night, when for the first time a single disease captured virtually every major prize given by the …
PROFILE of Tatyana Grosman whose workshop, Universal Limited Art Editions, in West Islip, L.I. produces fine lithographic prints. Her venture began in 1957…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Israel. Writer and her family stayed in an apartment in Mishkenot Sha'anamin, a residential complex for artists & writers. …
PROFILE of Dr. Carl Sagan, professor of astronomy at Cornell and the most ardent advocate of life on Mars. Dr. Sagan will be on the imaging team, whose …
PROFILE of Dr. Carl Sagan, the controversial Cornell professor of astronomy who believes there is life on Mars and is a member of the imaging team of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the British press in 1776, especially the news about America. Gives opinions on the government's policies, eyewitness reports …
Descriptions by the writer of several games. She says, in desdribing the game called Seven Bugs, that one of the classic mathematical fallacies was …
The writer, who keeps a journal, is a leper. He earns his
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the National Council to Control Handguns -- established in January, 1974, thus setting up the first national handgun-control …
In 1938, in London, Baron Mumtael, a newly naturalized Englishman, comes to dinner at Elsa's and Stephen's. He is a small, fair, plump young man …
Writer parodies press releases for films. In a memo, Sy Pringle, of Out-To-Lunch Films, Inc., lists the company's new summer releases, all of them …
In 1954, when the narrator was 12 years old, his cousin drowned in Lake Independence. The narrator's mother made him take swimming lessons at the Y in …
In the South of France, Netta Asher's family held a 100-year lease on the Hotel Prince Albert and Albion. Netta took over the hotel in her father's…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about living conditions in the space station. Skylab. Skylab, built by NASA, was launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14, 1973 and the …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about living conditions in the space station, Skylab. The third crew to live in Skylab stayed the longest time, from Nov. 16, 1973 to …
The play begins with two quotations from the "Los Angeles Times," one, about dress designer Diane Von Furstenberg, the other, about Ron Talsky, a Hollywood…
The fairy child, a boy, was born with a caul to Sir Huon and Lady Ulpha. Such children, said the midwife, never drown and keep an unblemished complexion to…
Gabriel García Márquez explores the ruins of colonialism and capitalism in this 1976 story about a solitary, undying despot in the “house of power,” translated by Gregory Rabassa.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Alaska and the hunt for a new capital site there. Tells about the beginnings of Juneau as a gold mining town in the 1880's. …
As the Maples at last decided to part, the Puritan Commonwealth in which they lived passed a no-fault amendment to its creaking, overworked body of divorce…
Janet Malcolm on photography, truth, artifice, and falsehood.
PROFILE of film maker Jean-Luc Godard. Writer talks to Godard at his home and studio in Grenoble. Describes both places. Godard talks about making films …
Incidents from the life of a family related alternately by the father, Sam, who recalls his wife Laura, and the son, Scobie, who thinks of his father. At …
Tod and Pumpkin are lovers who have recently left their spouses, Lulu and Roger. The lovers are both seeing psychiatrists; Tod, whose name is also a word …
REPORTER AT LARGE about stuttering. Writer himself stuttered until he outgrew it during adolescence. He looked into the voluminous scientific literature on…
Jervis Anderson’s 1976 Profile of the author of “Invisible Man.”
Several months ago writer was in the basement workshop of a bootmaker in London's West End. Tells about his conversation with the proprietor, Mr. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, E. Africa. It is a last gathering place for a diversity of African wildlife. 5100 sq. miles is a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about increased use, in both civilian & military fields. of microwaves and their health hazards.
REPORTER AT LARGE about what has been brought out by research into the effects of microwaves. The military-industrial complex has used national security to…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Carter transition team, in Washington, D.C. The transition headquarters is in the H.E.W. building(5th floor), and Congress …