PROFILE of Iraqi architects Kanan & Mohamed Makiya; son & father. Mohamed thinks he was born in 1916. Since 1974 he has been based in London. His firm is …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1992
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1992 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Lawrence Weschler (3)
Most featured section: Fiction
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE about Singapore where an economic miracle has been achieved. In not much more than a decade, Singaporeans passed from poverty to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Mongolia. In 1921 the country embraced Communism, &, within 3 years became the unofficial "sixteenth Soviet republic". Eight years …
Benny, 44, a sculptor, and her lover Pete, 26, a graduate student in microbiology, are touring the South, driving from Wisconsin to New Orleans. Though …
PROFILE of Jesse Jackson. He was born, illegitimate, in the most impoverished pocket of the black quarter of Greenville, South Carolina; it was when he …
PROFILE of Jesse Jackson. Jackson was born, illegitimate, in Greenville, S.C., in 1941. Tells about his early life. He tours Greenville with writer, …
PROFILE of Jesse Jackson. After Martin Luther King's death, Jackson felt confined within King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and broke…
How it felt to be a young baseball fan in nineteen-thirties New York, with heroes like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Babe Ruth.
Richard Preston profiles Gregory and David Chudnovsky, mathematician brothers who built a supercomputer out of mail-order parts in order to calculate pi.
In the winter of 1944-45 the narrator was an 11-year-old Jew living in Budapest. The building in which his family lived with his Aunt Zsuzsa, a modern …
PROFILE of Sen. Alan K. Simpson, the assistant Republican leader, or whip, and junior U.S. Senator from Yoming. At 6'7", he is one of the funniest and …
David Remnick meets the city’s best-known newspaper editors, including the founder of Nezavisimaya Gazeta—“the closest thing Russia has ever had to a Western daily,” he wrote, in 1992.
PROFILE of classical guitarist Eliot Fisk. At 37, Fisk is a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg; he keeps a pieda-terre on the Upper West Side of …
PROFILE of Julius Monk, 79, one of the most successful supper club impresarios who emerged after the end of Prohibition. Monk (no relation to Thelonius) …
About Angelina and Darlene, friends who live three miles from each other, outside of Detroit. Angelina calls Darlene to borrow her car so she can visit her…
Therese is with her family for Christmas in Bethesda, Maryland, where her parents have recently moved. Therese's younger brother Andrew and his wife …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Cuba, the Cuban missle crisis, and the Cuban-American political community. Last September, Mikhail Gorbachev, then the President …
PROFILE of Glorgio Strehler, Italian theater director. The Piccolo Teatro, Strehler's compnay, is located in Milan. Describes his being stagestruck at …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland's economic problems. Writer visits a market at Warsaw's Stadium of the Tenth Anniversary. Describes the wide …
Eddie Zwang, a bankrupt optometrist headed for Mexico from Washington state in a Volvo filled with stolen optical equipment, decided to stop in Portland, …
Story told mostly in a flashback to 1985 when the narrator's two children, Zack and Nora, were finishing high school and she was newly divorced and …
PROFILE of Richard Evans Schultes, a Harvard botanist specializing in ethnobotany and jugle plants. Tells about his life as well as the various …
Robert Gottlieb on saying goodbye to “Marlene”; in Paris and Berlin, she was a symbol as well as a legend.
Three weeks after Arthur's ex-wife Kate moves in with her fiance Ted, their house burns down and Arthur lets them stay with him in his and Kate's …
Susan Orlean on the people from all over the world who worked and shopped at Sunshine Market, a grocery store in Jackson Heights, in Queens.
PROFILE of pianist Richard Goode, 49, who has only in the past few years become known as a solo pianist, after many years as a chamber musician. Born in …
Black and white cartoon spread. Six panels describing other presidential candidates: e.g., Harvey "Rust" Perrault, Elvis Presley.
Ad Magic, an American "ad writer," is on a tour bus in Bombay when it is rear-ended by a truck; the impact throws him down the aisle and causes a lozenge …
Louis Menand on the novel that rewrote our understanding of race in America.
Comment about the Democratic Convention's lack of spontaneity, its silliness, its polictical oration, its simple-mindedness, but finally its spirit of …
PROFILE of singer Rosemary Clooney, that traces the peaks and valleys of her personal life and career, from 1945 when she began at an Ohio radio station, …
PROFILE of john Loring, who is the design director of Tiffany and company. He is tall, handsome, with a broad high forehead and a rugged, prominent nose. …
Elizabeth Wurtzel reviews the rocker’s lackluster 1992 albums “Human Touch” and “Lucky Town” and considers the trajectory of his career.
Part 1 of William Finnegan's personal essay about his surfing days in San Francisco and his friendship with Dr. Mark Renneker.
The second part of William Finnegan’s personal essay about his surfing days in San Francisco and his friendship with Dr. Mark Renneker.
John McPhee explores the geology of the Golden State.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the sport of bull-riding. Tells about the disasterous ride of Wacey Cathey, who was put in the hospital after one of his rides, …
Gwen (in the 2nd person voice) and Boris, graduate students, are roommates, but Gwen pretends and lets people infer that they are romantically involved. On…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Kurds, and the Iraqi governments war against them. If a genocide case is ever filed against the Iraq of Saddam Hussein and his …
A short story by George Saunders, from 1992.
Joan Juliet Buck’s 1992 profile of Daniel Day-Lewis: “The impression he gives is of transition, flux.”
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Jan Kavan, a Czech dissident, who was accused of collaborating with the Czech secret police or StB, and was "lustrated" or purged…
Richard Preston reports on the emergence of the Ebola Reston virus in Central Africa, and its sudden spread to the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
The narrator, a married Japanese writer, meets a woman at a friends wedding in Tokyo, and proceeds to tell the story of their bizarre relationship. …
To land the biggest gig in late night, Leno had to make an enemy of David Letterman, Peter J. Boyer writes—and abandon the manager and longtime friend who’d brought him to TV in the first place.
Elizabeth Drew on how the “nothing to lose” candidate from Arkansas beat George Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 Presidential election, in his first campaign.
John Lahr on the pioneering playwright Tony Kushner.
Arthur Lubow on the playwright haunted by unconditional love, guilt of survival, and Roy Cohn.
The story is about a man, a father, who lived a completely different life in his diaries than he did in reality. He kept his diary for his own pleasure. He…
A REPORTER AT LARGE is about President Richard Nixon, the White House Tapes that were made during his presidency, and the over ten year struggle Nixon has …
Jane Kramer’s classic 1992 story about the sculptor John Ahearn, whose statues of his Bronx neighbors launched a debate over political correctness and who has the right to make art for the city.
The narrator, Martin, tells the story of Nathan Swirsky moving into his subdivision outside of Johannesburg in the Christmas week of 1950. Swirsky had a …