PROFILE of Citibank, the second largest bank in the world (after the California-based Bank of America), and the one most given to technological as well as …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1981
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1981 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Susan Sheehan (4)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a foot safari made by the writer in September, 1979, in the far south of the Selous Game Reserve, in Tanzania. He went with Brian …
The narrator, a professor of Philosophy, will be the host of this week's meeting of the Philosophy Circle this evening. The subject of discussion is to…
PROFILE of the opera singer Teresa Stratas. A lyric soprano, Miss Stratas's versatility as both singer and actress makes her, in her early forties, one…
Nathan Zuckerman is a writer trying to cope with the instant celebrity he has achieved since the publication of his book "Carnovsky" and the cover story …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the space shuttle, which takes off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Mar. 17th. It is named Columbia and is…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the space shuttle, NASA's first reusable spacecraft with a large cargo bay for carrying, among other things, satellites to be …
REPORTER AT LARGE about restoring small-scale hydroelectric power facilities in New York State. In the past the power of falling water was utilized but in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about fishing for the elusive steelhead, a subspecies of rainbow trout. Writer lives on the Russian River in Northern Calif. Most Russian…
The narrator is a young girl living in a town in Ireland at the beginning of the story; at the end, she is married, with one small child. In the town are …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the efforts by the new Reagan Administration to maneuver successfully through the early phase of the Presidency. Although there is …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Antarctica. The writer was there in late 1979, summer in the Southern Hemisphere, dividing her time between the naval …
Cartoon parody of garden catalogue. Six items are pictured: Manual lawnmower, with caption, "Fell Zillions of blades of grass in mere hours! Incredible …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the accident on Mar. 28, 1979, at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear power plant, ten miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. The …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the inadequacy of safety precautions in nuclear power plants and the accident on 3/28/79 at Three Mile Island. The latter is one of…
Stephanie Angelica Bysehe Talbot Duncan is born in 1929, the daughter of Stephen and Stephanie Duncan. Her mother's great-great-grandfather Stephen had…
REPORTER AT LARGE about national security. Americans' ideas of their nation's power have changed in the last six years. Until the withdrawal from …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dept. of the Interior and its new Secretary James Watt. Tells about the functions of the dept. In recent years it has become …
All Venezuela, except for the negligible middle class, is divided between the Indians (los indios) and the rich (los ricos). The Indians are very poor and …
Frances FitzGerald on the rise of the Christian right as a voting bloc.
Writing in 1981, Susan Sheehan reports on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a state-run mental institution serving the people of Queens.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Creedmoor Psychiatric Center and the stay there, beginning June 16, 1978, of Sylvia Frumkin, 30. Between June 30 and July 6 she …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the case history of Sylvia Frumkin (pseudonym), a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. Writer describes her family: her …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sylvia Frumkin (pseud.), a 33-year old patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Writer chronicles her medical history …
Carol is 20 years old, a waitress who lives with her parents and takes night courses at a local college. She goes to a discotheque with her friends one …
Part 1 of Jervis Anderson’s sweeping report about the history of a neighborhood—and a refuge—for the Black community of twentieth-century Manhattan.
Part 2 of Jervis Anderson’s report about the neighborhood’s early development, from the rise of Black-owned businesses and ragtime, to Marcus Garvey and Madam C. J. Walker, the millionaire beautician.
Paul is Lois Casey's boyfriend. Yesterday was Lois' fourteenth birthday. Paul is somewhat older than Lois, and he gets along very well with her …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Jesse Helms, the Republican senior Senator from North Carolina. Since his first election to the Senate, in 1972, Helms has …
V. S. Pritchett’s 1981 review of Rushdie’s breakout novel, “Midnight’s Children,” plus “The Hangwoman,” by Pavel Kohout.
Anna, the writer's mother, is living alone in a large house in Western Pennsylvania after the death of her husband, a minister. The writer stays with …
An English group, Dekko, Strafe, Strafe's wife Cynthia, and Milly play bridge together, and have always spent their June holiday together in an Irish …
This parody of the disintegration of the United States Postal System takes place at the end of this century or early in the 21st. The 11 illustrations …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the spacecraft Voyager 1's rendezvous with the planet Saturn, in November, 1980. Writer went to Pasadena, California and spent …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Survival International, a 12-year-old London-based organization whose chairman is Robin Hanbury-Tenison. It is concerned with the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the present state of the AFL-CIO with 15 million members. This is the 100th anniversary of organized labor but there is not much …
PROFILE of the gardens at St. Luke in the Fields Episcopal Church, in Greenwich Village. Both the Corner Garden and its elder sibling, the Rectory Garden, …
PROFILE of Hope, Arkansas (pop. 10,290), the seat of Hempstead County, in the southwestern part of the state.
Fiction, from 1981.
The narrator is given the responsibility of pasturing a billy goat named Jacinto. She prefers to think of herself as a "counsellor to a smart goat," rather…
On day 1,006 of his journey, Ijon Tichy, Space Traveller, landed on a planet in the middle of an open desert covered with shining discs arranged in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about radioactive waste. In the thirty-eight years since the first nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was buried, nuclear waste has…
Preceded by quotation from N.Y. Times of Charles Z. Wick, a member of President Reagan's Kitchen Cabinet. Mr. Wick expresses the opinion that …
(From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy, Space Traveller) Ijon Tichy tells about an expedition whose goal was the creation of the universe. A man named professor …
Illustrated story in the form of suggestions to improve a failing automobile manufacturing business (Matterhorn Motors.) Eg., 1. Admit that in U.S. buyersO…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the underclass or hard-core unemployed. Few training or job programs reach them. An experiment to help, called supported work, was …
REPORTER AT LARGE about supported-work programs for the underclass or hard-core unemployed. Writer tells about a class in life skills, given by Howard …
REPORTER AT LARGE about poverty in the U.S. and the underclass. The Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., in N.Y., designed a supported-work experiment …
Parody of the Reagan administration in the style of John Irving's "The Hotel New Hampshire." Father, (Reagan) had a dreamy quality that had to do with …
Jeremy Bernstein’s 1981 Profile of the artificial-intelligence pioneer.
PROFILES about recent visit of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa to the United States. Kurosawa was here as the guest of the Japan Society, whose Film …
REPORTER AT LARGE about going from Copenhagen to Paris by train. Writer booked a sleeping compartment on the Danish express to Paris that leaves Copenhagen…