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September 27, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Letter from the Archive: Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols”

Nabokov’s short story centers on an elderly couple’s attempt to visit their son in a sanitarium.
September 15, 2013
Blog: Culture Desk

Avedon to Rodarte: Fashion in The New Yorker

Coverage of fashion and its effect on culture has been a part of the magazine since its inception.
August 16, 2013
Blog: Currency

Eighty Years of New Yorker Advertisements

In the early years of The New Yorker, after the magazine ran some advertisements featuring endorsements by its own writers, the editor Harold Ross sent a heated memo to an aide to Raoul Fleischmann, the...
June 5, 2013
Blog: Photo Booth

R.F.K.: Life and Death on the Campaign Trail

Forty-five years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel, in Los Angeles. We’ve put together a slide show of photographs showing Kennedy in happier times.
May 31, 2013
Blog: Double Take

Hannah Arendt and The New Yorker

In 1961, The New Yorker sent a reporter to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann.That reporter was Hannah Arendt. Arendt is the subject of a new, eponymous film, which premiered on May 29th; her five-part article, “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” set off a passionate public debate about the Holocaust.
May 6, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

“Beautiful Little Fools”

Before F. Scott Fitzgerald made a name for himself with “This Side of Paradise” (1920), he took a job as an ad man at the Barron Collier agency in Manhattan. He made ninety dollars a...
April 18, 2013
Blog: Double Take

Takes: A Boston Poem

Earlier today, at an interfaith service at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross, President Obama read from E. B. White’s poem Boston Is Like No Other Place in the World Only More So. It ran in The New Yorker nearly sixty-five years ago. Here’s an excerpt.
March 10, 2013
Blog: Double Take

The Allure of Oz

The idea that the alluring, far-away land of Oz could become as familiar as Kansas is a reassuring notion. It is what eventually happens to all of us once we venture beyond the sheltering gates of childhood and familiar routine: “Over the Rainbow” becomes the new normal.
February 17, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner

Joseph Mitchell’s Ear for New York

A scribe of hidden lives, Mitchell let the streets speak to him
February 4, 2013
Blog: Double Take

A New Yorker for Brooklynites

For anyone who is a fan of The New Yorker, sifting through the pages of The Brooklynite is a bit like seeing a reflection in a fun-house mirror.
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