Double Take
Lost and Found: A Newly Resurfaced Poem by the Late Mark Strand
“Wallace Stevens Comes Back to Read His Poems at the 92nd Street Y,” which The New Yorker purchased in 1994, is published for the first time in the magazine’s Anniversary Issue.
By Hannah Aizenman
A Look Back at Peter Schjeldahl’s Visionary Criticism
The New Yorker’s longtime art critic has died, at the age of eighty.
By The New Yorker
A Sensational Murder Trial in the Newly Founded New Yorker
In the mid-nineteen-twenties, a double murder in New Jersey became a media obsession, and helped define a fledgling magazine’s reporting and style.
By Joe Pompeo
The Life and Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in The New Yorker
From wartime princess to elderly monarch, the magazine’s writers captured the Queen at milestone moments across the decades.
By The New Yorker
Salman Rushdie on the Fatwa That Endangered His Life
From The New Yorker’s archive: the novelist, who was stabbed on Friday as he was about to deliver a lecture in western New York, recalls the religious death sentence and period of hiding that followed the publication of “The Satanic Verses.”
By The New Yorker
The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri
The Al Qaeda leader was reportedly killed in Afghanistan by a U.S. drone strike.
By Lawrence Wright
Sunday Reading: The January 6th Hearings
From the archive: a selection of pieces about these events unfolding in Washington.
By The New Yorker
Sunday Reading: Lost (and Found) in Translation
From the archive: a selection of pieces about the intricacies of translating literature.
By The New Yorker
Sunday Reading: Writers at Work
From the archive: extraordinary portraits of literary artists.
By The New Yorker
Sunday Reading: Adolescent Envy
From the magazine’s archive: a selection of pieces about adolescence and teen-age yearning.
By Erin Overbey