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Erin Overbey

The New Yorker

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Sunday Reading: Adolescent Envy

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces by Jamaica Kincaid, Lillian Ross, Joseph Mitchell, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lizzie Widdicombe, Walter Bernstein, Colson Whitehead, and Vladimir Nabokov about adolescence and teen-age yearning. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Legendary First Encounters

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces by A. J. Liebling, Ingrid Sischy, Russell Maloney, Janet Flanner, John Hersey, Lillian Ross, and Jane Boutwell about notable figures early in their rise to prominence. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Nights on the Town

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces about the enduring appeal of soirées, house parties, and other carefree celebrations. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Luminaries of the Theatre

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces by Stephen Schiff, John Lahr, Hilton Als, Andy Logan, Lillian Ross, Arthur Miller, Michael Schulman, and Arthur Lubow about the theatrical experience. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Profiles and Portraits

From The New Yorker’s archive: compelling portraits and sketches by Janet Flanner, George W. S. Trow, Hilton Als, Kenneth Tynan, Susan Orlean, Mark Singer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Calvin Trillin, in celebration of the magazine’s ninety-seventh anniversary. → Read More

Sunday Reading: A Cultural Review of the Aughts

From The New Yorker’s archive: culture pieces by Kevin Jackson, Anthony Lane, John Updike, Sasha Frere-Jones, Joan Acocella, Kelefa Sanneh, and David Denby from the early two-thousands. → Read More

Holiday Stories from the Archive

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces by Vladimir Nabokov, Bobbie Ann Mason, John Cheever, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joseph Mitchell, E. B. White, James Thurber, and Joan Acocella about Christmas and the holiday spirit. → Read More

Joan Didion in

Erin Overbey writes about the novelist and essayist Joan Didion’s contributions to The New Yorker, including a column on the politics and culture of California and a Profile of Martha Stewart. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Personal Reflections

From The New Yorker’s archive: memorable personal essays and explorations by John Edgar Wideman, Zadie Smith, Roger Angell, Gabriel García Márquez, Susan Sontag, and Jiayang Fan. → Read More

Thanksgiving Tales from the Archive

This year, the holiday offers a fresh sense of homecoming and the potential for a return to normalcy. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Television in Popular Culture

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces by Nancy Franklin, Renata Adler, David Owen, Doreen St. Félix, James Wolcott, and Margaret Talbot about notable shows and how they have helped transform our culture. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Critics on Classic Literature

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of contemporaneous appraisals of writers and reviews of classic novels. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Adaptations

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of short stories and nonfiction from the magazine that have been adapted into films. → Read More

September 11th in the Archive, Twenty Years On

Two decades of remembrances and reporting that attempt to reckon with the attacks. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Food & Drink

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces that reflect our varied culinary experiences and the ways in which they enhance our lives. → Read More

A Rare Discovery on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”

The head librarian at John Hersey High School, in Illinois, uncovers a piece of journalism history. → Read More

Sunday Reading: A Wonderful Town

From The New Yorker’s archive: pieces about Manhattan and the figures and places that make the city so unforgettable. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Publish or Perish

From the magazine’s archive: a selection of pieces about publishers, editors, and the world of media. → Read More

Sunday Reading: Intriguing Journeys

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about adventures of every shape and dimension. → Read More

Sunday Reading: The Funny Parts

From The New Yorker’s archive: a medley of playful and whimsical humor pieces by Nora Ephron, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ian Frazier, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Steve Martin, and Upton Sinclair. → Read More