All aided and abetted by thirty-two illustrations from old prints and cartoons. ♦ Published in the print edition of the October 27, 1928, issue. As part of an effort to make The New Yorker’s archive ...

By that time it’s all too great an imbroglio for remedying, anyway. William turns lazy, loses his job, dabbles in crime; Kenneth goes in for heavier drinking; Berenice becomes apathetic. In the end, ...

Scott Cooper’s tightly focussed bio-pic, about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s D.I.Y. album “Nebraska,” leaves out the wide ...

In his cynical campaign for mayor, the former New York governor touted the decades he spent in power. That was part of the ...

In “Nexus,” Puryear shows that he may be America’s greatest living sculptor, a maverick who reshapes our sense of how art ...

FROM crime, now, we turn to art. “Counter-Statement’,” by Kenneth Burke, published by Harcourt, Brace, is, in essence, an effort to reinstate the artist in his traditional place as arbiter and seer, ...

There were few pleasanter places to spend an afternoon last week than on the balcony of the clubhouse at Empire City, but on Saturday, which was a beautiful day, the crowd was a hit too much. People ...

HARMONY among friends is not the rule these nights when women singers are discussed. There is something about a chanteuse standing (or sitting, as the case may be) in a spotlight and giving vent to ...

ONCE in a while, a rental building ascends into the rarified air of upper Fifth Avenue, and once in a while it is as dignified, as complete, and as luxurious as a cooperative. Thus you have, in a ...

Willys-Overland, which attracted so much attention at the Palace a year ago, hasn’t produced a new model. The 1937 one was so popular the firm is satisfied to stand on what it’s got. Pierce-Arrow ...

The old Harvard captain sitting beside me nearly fainted as Guarnaccia, that stalwart little sophomore back, crashed through for a first down with inches only to spare. That was typical of the game.

IF you feel capable of clambering about Park Avenue in the neighborhood of Ninetieth Street without twisting an ankle—the noble program of widening the Avenue has been extended that far—you will find ...