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- This week, Joan Acocella writes about Agatha Christie and the modern murder mystery. At the Back Issues blog, Jon Michaud looks at previous coverage of Christie from The New Yorker’s archives.
- This year The New Yorker is celebrating its 85th anniversary, so we’re putting a spotlight on eighty-five stories from our archives.
- January 16, 1960: “Sequence” by Theodore Roethke
- May 13, 1950: Richard Rovere at the McCarthy hearings
- June 15, 1957: “First Love and Other Sorrows,” by Harold Brodkey
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- This week, Jon Lee Anderson writes about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Packer has also written about violence in Guinea, the earthquake in Haiti, and street gangs in Rio de Janeiro.
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- From “The Current Cinema,” by Edith Oliver, p. 66:
Alfred Hitchcock’s new “Marnie” is an idiotic and trashy movie with two terrible performances in the leading roles, and I had quite a good time watching it… - READ THIS ISSUE
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