William Shawn

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."

Tales of the city and beyond.

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

She did not write her most famous work until late in life. Until then, she thought of herself as a poet of the sea.