The Atlantic C.E.O.—and author of “The Running Ground”—discusses four books about how demanding physical pursuits can change ...

Published in the print edition of the October 29, 1927, issue. As part of an effort to make The New Yorker’s archive more accessible to readers, this story was digitized by an automated process and ...

The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in ...

UP in New Haven, a classic instance of the problems confronting the have-nots (in this case, Dartmouth) was resolved, 20-0, in favor of the haves (in this case, Yale). Yale, rich in running and ...

In 1988, when the British government declared that the voices of Sinn Féin or I.R.A. leaders were not to be heard, ...

Mr. Zaslawsky, who may have wondered at the critical merriment, was not to be laughed out of business. Over the summer he gathered up another version of the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, and, mirabile ...

This new comedy team is composed of none other than Louis Wolheim and William Boyd whom you can remember as swearing at each other in the play “What Price Glory.” The rest of the cast is mostly ...

It is a beautiful experience and one that you may never have again. For Rowlandson is the pet hobby of Mr. Neumann, who has spent sixteen years collecting examples of the English ironist. There are ...

The sort of football writing which makes such dramatic and interesting reading these Sundays is a direct outgrowth of the demand for it. It is, to use a common expression, “eaten up.” You have only to ...

The Squash Tennis Association has put its stamp of approval on his project. The Shelton Club courts on Lexington Avenue, which have the largest gallery in the city, have already been leased, and a ...

ANOTHER illustration of “horses for courses” was Black Panther in the New Rochelle Handicap at Empire City. He is strictly a fast track horse, but the Honorable George insists Maiben steered him ...

The aggressively aquatic program of the hotel is further maintained by an outdoor swimming-pool with glass-enclosed pavilion and by a small fleet of motor and sailboats devised to take guests, at ...