"In the introduction to "The New Yorker Index 1992," a twenty-page catalogue of everything the magazine published that year, the staff writer John McPhee acknowledged a ritual familiar to many New Yorker readers: tackling a stack of unread issues. Instead of catching up at home, he'd schlep his copies up to New Hampshire and read in the middle of a lake, while lying in a canoe."
"With those issues dispatched, he'd call the New Yorker office and ask the librarian for help locating other stories he wanted to read: "Hello, Helen, in what issue did [the staff writer Thomas] Whiteside tee up the American latex tomato? Whose was the thing about the grass at Wimbledon?" (The thing was McPhee's, of course.) Exploring past New Yorker pieces is now a lot easier (and more portable). As of this week, our full archive is available to read at newyorker.com."
The New Yorker's complete archive is now accessible at newyorker.com. More than one hundred thousand pieces from over four thousand issues have been added to existing online content. The expanded holdings include John Updike’s 1961 short story A & P and Calvin Tomkins’s Profile of Marcel Duchamp, along with work by Jorge Luis Borges, Susan Sontag, Ralph Ellison, and Louise Glück. The collection encompasses celebrities, athletes, royals, and diverse cultural subjects. Counts include more than thirty-one thousand Talk of the Town items; twenty-four hundred Reporter at Large pieces; over thirteen thousand works of fiction; fourteen thousand poems; and three thousand Letters from Abu Dhabi to Zimbabwe.
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