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How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
From 1994: Alec Wilkinson interviews one of America’s most notorious killers, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted, in 1980, of murdering 33 boys. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/04/18/conversations-with-a-killer
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Tenzing Norkay had been on more Everest expeditions than any other man when he reached the top, in 1953. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/05/tenzing-of-everest
October 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Why Cubism had to be invented still puzzles a large public,” Janet Flanner wrote, in 1939. Revisit her Profile of the artist who would come to “dominate” the movement: Pablo Picasso. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/03/09/the-surprise-of-the-century-i
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife, on September 11, 2001. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” #NewYorkerArchive
The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 Hero
The Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death,” his best friend said—a hero’s e...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I grew up watching Sesame Street. My daughter grew up watching Sesame Street. Now my grandchildren are growing up watching (classic) Sesame Street.
September 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In 1995, Lillian Ross observed, with an anthropologist’s eye, the rituals of private-school teens on the Upper East Side. #NewYorkerArchive
The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue
In 1995, Lillian Ross observed, with an anthropologist’s eye, the rituals of private-school teens on the Upper East Side.
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August 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Revisit Truman Capote’s iconic Profile of Marlon Brando, from 1957, which the actor begged Capote not to publish. #NewYorkerArchive
Marlon Brando, on Location
Truman Capote’s 1957 Profile of the actor, reported from the set of “Sayonara.”
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July 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Annie Proulx’s first story for The New Yorker, which was published in 1997, depicts the tragic love affair between two cowboys, offering a different take on the traditional tales of the West. #NewYorkerArchive
“Brokeback Mountain”
Fiction by Annie Proulx, from 1997: “They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at night, then in the full daylight.”
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July 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
John Updike on what he wanted to be before he decided to become a writer. #NewYorkerArchive
Lost Art, by John Updike
From 1997: Before the author decided to become a writer, he idolized cartoonists.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
From 1958: How the advertising executive Eugene Gilbert made youth culture profitable. #NewYorkerArchive
Inventing the American Teen-Ager
Eugene Gilbert, the advertising executive who made youth culture profitable.
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May 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“I’ve got a passenger a few rows up and his crying is disturbing the people around him,” a flight attendant told David Sedaris, on a 2007 flight from J.F.K. to Paris. “Do you think it would be O.K. if he moved and sat here?” #NewYorkerArchive
Journey into Night
Business-class emotions.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“I’ve got a passenger a few rows up and his crying is disturbing the people around him,” a flight attendant told David Sedaris, on a 2007 flight from J.F.K. to Paris. “Do you think it would be O.K. if he moved and sat here?” #NewYorkerArchive
Journey into Night
Business-class emotions.
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May 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From 1996: Ann Hulbert on Dr. Spock, who offered children and parents a welcome end to scolding and strictures. “Trust yourself,” he told parents in the famous opening paragraphs of his book. #NewYorkerArchive
Growing Up with Dr. Spock, America’s Paramount Child-Rearing Authority
From 1996: Ann Hulbert on the “Baby and Child Care” author, who offered children and parents a welcome end to scolding and strictures. “Trust yourself,” he told parents in the famous opening paragraph...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Twenty-seven years after a friend’s murder, a New York cop found himself revisiting the scene of the crime. Read Philip Gourevitch’s investigation, from 2000. #NewYorkerArchive
A Cold Case
Suddenly, a New York cop remembered a long-ago double murder.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Anthony Bourdain began his writing career on our pages, with this essay, in 1999. #NewYorkerArchive
“Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by Anthony Bourdain
The late chef’s 1999 essay about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain,” he writes. “It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the firs...
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April 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
From the #NewYorkerArchive: F. Scott Fitzgerald recounts his life in drinks—from sparkling Burgundy to locker-room brandy—between the years 1913 and 1929.
“A Short Autobiography,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The writer recounts his life in drinks—from sparkling Burgundy to locker-room brandy—between the years 1913 to 1929.
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April 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
From 1960: John Updike watches Ted Williams’s last game with the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park. #NewYorkerArchive
Boston Fans Bid Kid Adieu
From 1960: John Updike watches Ted Williams’s last game with the Boston Red Sox, at Fenway Park.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character, Mark Singer wrote, in 1997. #NewYorkerArchive
Searching for Trump’s Soul
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. #NewYorkerArchive
The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool
From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the Beverly Hills Hotel pool. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. #NewYorkerArchive
The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool
From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1962. #NewYorkerArchive
James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind
From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
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January 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM