Stories including:The Five-Forty-Eight by John CheeverDistant Music by Ann BeattieSailor off the Bremen by Irwin ShawPhysics by Tama JanowitzThe Whore of Mensa by Woody AllenWhat It Was Like, Seeing Chris by Deborah EisenbergDrawing Room B by John O'HaraA Sentimental Journey by Peter TaylorThe Ba...
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchle...
JAMES STEVENSON There aren’t too many appealing places to go in Manhattan at four in the morning. The streets are desolate; the few cars that are moving seem secretive, bent on melancholy errands; pedestrians are rare and nervous-looking. Dawn is a long way off. We were driving around the city at...