Bruce Springsteen’s Family Values
What happens to rock stars when they grow up?
By Elizabeth Wurtzel
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Timothy White / Trunk Archive
Date: August 9, 1992
Accounts of the peacefulness and generosity of the festivalgoers are all true—but they have tended to miss the point.
By Ellen Willis
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Elliott Landy / Magnum
Date: August 29, 1969
The Public Intellectual
Cornel West is a rare American cultural entity: a serious philosopher with a popular following—and some vocal critics in academe.
By Jervis Anderson
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Anthony Barboza / Getty
Date: January 9, 1994
The Sound Machine
By Roald Dahl
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Werner Bischof / Magnum
Date: September 9, 1949
Mae West, the Queen of New York
The writer and star of “Sex” and “Diamond Lil” is calm, clear, and eager for success.
By Thyra Samter Winslow
Client: The New Yorker
Date: November 2, 1928
Professional Courtesy
Michael Swango is a convicted poisoner and a doctor whose patients keep dying. Why have hospitals around the country repeatedly put people under his care?
By James B. Stewart
Client: The New Yorker
Date: November 16, 1997
Old Love
By Isaac Bashevis Singer
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Jim Goldberg / Magnum
Date: June 29, 1975
The Years With Thurber
The man and his letters.
By Robert Gottlieb
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Irving Penn / Courtesy Irving Penn Foundation
Date: August 31, 2003
Work
By Denis Johnson
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Alec Soth / Magnum
Date: November 6, 1988
Sexy
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Alec Soth / Magnum
Date: December 20, 1998
Birth of a Salesman
The short story that foreshadowed Arthur Miller’s masterpiece.
By John Lahr
Client: The New Yorker
Photograph: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Date: December 17, 1995
Helen Keller at Forty-nine
Keller was convinced that what she had done, others could do—her struggle had been in combating the world’s refusal to regard her as a normal human being.
By Robert M. Coates
Client: The New Yorker
Date: January 17, 1930
Charlie Chaplin, Popular God of Film
Chaplin, who has shaken the world with laughter, sees himself as the greater joke.
By Waldo Frank
Client: The New Yorker
Illustration: Conrado Walter Massaguer
Date: May 15, 1925
Friend of My Youth
By Alice Munro
Client: The New Yorker
Photographer: Ferdinando Scianna / Magnum
Date: January 14, 1990
Mickey-Mouse Maker
Walt Disney at thirty.
By Gilbert Seldes
Client: The New Yorker
Date: December 11, 1931