PROFILE of Dr. Lewis Thomas, 64, who for 37 years has done outstanding research in biomedicine. He is pres. & chief executive officer of the Memorial …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1978
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1978 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Elizabeth Drew (5)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE about Washington lobbyist Charls E. Walker, president of Charls E. Walker Associates, Inc. This is an economic-consulting-and-lobbying …
PROFILE of Pontus Hulten, director of the new Musee National d'Art Moderne, which is on the third, fourth, and fifth floors of the new Centre National …
Tom Croft takes extended leave from his NY job and goes to the Mediterranean with his wife, Joanna. After a few months, Joanna decides to go back to NY. …
The narrator is sitting in his new steel Butler building, practicing knocking down stepladders with his 43 foot crane, when he realizes that he is at a low…
PROFILE of Georgia, President Jimmy Carter's home state. Tells about Georgia's colonial history: it was settled in 1733 when 114 colonists, led by …
PROFILE of Georgia. Tells of the state's early history & some of the important men. Gold was discovered in 1828. Bountiful veins were in Indian …
Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 profile of Johnny Carson. “I once asked a bright young Manhattan journalist whether he could define in a single word what made television different from theatre or cinema. ‘For good or ill,’ he said, ‘Carson.’ ”
REPORTER AT LARGE about Pres. Carter's Administration now in office one year. It's clear now just how hard it is to bring about change in govt. …
When the Radio City Music Hall Corp. announced its plans recently to close down the Music Hall & mentioned that proposals have been made to replace it with…
Kennedy Fraser’s 1978 essay on fashion and influence. “Many societies have been openly dominated by fashionable people, but our society is quietly permitting itself to be dominated and transformed by fashionable minds.”
Francis runs a hardware store in County Tipperary Ireland and lives with his 80 year old mother. His brother, Father Paul (a priest) comes to visit once a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey, beginning in late Sept., 1973, to the Crystal Mountain. Writer walked west under Annapurna and north along the Kali …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a walking journey in the Himalayan mountains to the Crystal Monatery in northwest Nepal near the Tibetan frontier. Writer's …
Journal of a woman confined in a room with 24 other women by a man who is organizing a harem. He shows no interest in any of them. They while away the …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about animal communication. Discusses the philosophical history of the love of animals as presented in Johns Hopkins philosopher George…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about animal communication. Discusses many different forms of animal signalling behavior, both in nature and in studies conducted by …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the Pres. for National Security Affairs. He is at the center of the system for making foreign and…
REPORTER AT LARGE about problems faced by an engaged couple in Northern Ireland; she is Catholic and he is Protestant. Both work at a hospital in Belfast. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about family therapy. For an hour a week for 8 weeks the writer sat behind a one-way mirror in an observation room in a psychiatric …
REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recollections of actor Charlie Chaplin. He was the first international movie star; he was also the first movie figure …
Music executives in the late sixties were often cynical about rock stars—but never about Ahmet Ertegun, the Atlantic Records chairman who practically signed them all, George W. S. Trow writes.
Part 2 of George W. S. Trow’s 1978 Profile of the founder of Atlantic Records, “the most arresting figure in the American music business.”
PROFILE of Richard Lewis Clutterbuck, a 60-year-old lecturer at the Univ. of Exeter in Devon, England, where he gives a seminar on political violence. It …
Susan and Scobie live in Iowa City, Iowa with their three year old son, Sammy. Describes one summer afternoon--Sammy selling lemonade, Susan and Sammy …
Fiction, from 1978: “This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Greenmarket: open-air markets at several N.Y.C. sites, which sell local farm produce directly to the consumer. The site shifts …
REPORTER AT LARGE about midtown skyscrapers. The glass curtain wall stands at a point in history where the spirit seeking liberation from the past …
REPORTER AT LARGE about archeologist Iris Cornelia Love and her dig at Cnidus, Turkey. Cnidus was in the center of trade routes in the ancient world and …
Review of "Non Serviam," a fictional book by a fictional scientist named James Dobb documenting his research in personetics, a science described as an …
PROFILE of Anita Ellis, American popular singer. Tells about acute stagefright Miss Ellis suffers from. Describes her apartment on East End Ave., which she…
Piece which treats David Niven autobiography, "The Moon's a Balloon," as though it were of great scholarly significance. A lengthy discussion of Sam …
PROFILE of Bernard Meltzer, host of a radio program called "What's Your Problem?" on station WOR in New York. The program, which offers guidance for …
Berton Roueché on an illness at a Florida elementary school with a psychosomatic cause.
A story told by means of drawings and captions. Driving back to Hartford on a summer day Grayson Thomas, insurance salesman, pulled off the road and …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about dioxin contamination in&around Seveso, in Lombardy, Italy. On July 10, 1976, an explosion in a chemical reactor at the plant of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about John C. Culver, a 46-year-old Democratic senator from Iowa, who is in his first term. He has already established a reputation as …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sen. John C. Culver, Democrat of Iowa. Writer tells of his activities from Fri., July 14 through Wed., July 19. For the first three…
Woody Selbst, a tile contractor in South Chicago, mourns the death of his Jewish father, Morris. When Woody was 14, Morris took off with Halina, a Polish …
Richard H. Rovere on the President’s unexpected success as a mediator between Prime Minister Menachem Begin, of Israel, and President Anwar Sadat, of Egypt, in the Camp David Accords.
PROFILE of Walker Percy, writer & philosopher. By 1958 Percy was determined to tie his philosophical ideas down firmly & give them the life that a novel …
PROFILE of Gordon Willis, cinematographer. Willis, who is in his forties, has worked on films such as "Interiors," "All the President's Men," "The …
Fiction, from 1978: We were to a tourist in love with the Chinese revolution, Mao Tse-tung, and the Chinese people.
Kenneth Tynan on the comedian, writer, and filmmaker Mel Brooks; the form he found in the comic impromptu duologue; and the belated blossoming of an enormous career.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the land claims of the Mashpee Indians who live in Mashpee on Cape Cod.
PROFILE of Westchester County in New York State. The county takes up much of the penninsula, the Manhattan Prong. Tells about the rock formations, …
Calvin Trillin on the origins of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and why the New York neighborhood is particularly suited—in spirit and architecture—to celebrating the holiday.
An 11-year-old boy hides and listens while his Aunt Yentl tells two neighbor ladies a story. In Lublin, a village in Poland, the second wife of Reb Yissar …
This Week's Question: Is There A Danger In So Many Foreign Investors Buying Up Businesses and Property In America? Illustrated story. The above …
LETTER FROM IRAN about demonstrations against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s government. There has been a religious revival in Iran, with strong political …
Penelope Gilliatt’s 1978 Profile of the “Annie Hall” star: “one of the most comedically pure and brainy actresses in our midst.”