In Thomas Wolfe’s short story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” from 1935, a man encounters a peculiar stranger while waiting for a subway train. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/TT6vLWq

“If ever the Great American Novel is written, it may very possibly be composed along the lines here laid out by Steinbeck.” On the 85th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” read a rave review from the #NewYorkerArchive. nyer.cm/qgXAaYs

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck’s epic tale of the American frontier, “The Grapes of Wrath.” “Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity, … #NewYorkerArchive: nyer.cm/K9cJRvp

From 1995: A teen honors student was admitted to Harvard’s freshman class. Then the university learned new details about the death of her mother. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/tUs4Alf

In Thomas Wolfe’s short story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” from 1935, a man encounters a peculiar stranger while waiting for a subway train. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/pacrvRE

“This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.” Fiction by Jamaica Kincaid, from 1978. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/0y5qgyP

“Trump is nothing if not a brilliant salesman,” Mark Singer wrote in his 1997 Profile of the former President. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/G2Uaqur

“To call Chloe elusive is an understatement”: Revisit Jay McInerney’s 1994 profile of Chloe Sevigny. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/gAnxTye

Revisit Truman Capote’s iconic Profile of Marlon Brando, from 1957, which the actor begged Capote not to publish. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/XiSnTVp

From #NewYorkerArchive: a chronicle of the jazz legend Charlie Parker’s lyrical virtuosity. nyer.cm/Ts3qafR

“If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, ‘The Godfather’ is it,” Pauline Kael wrote, in 1972. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/YhvPGrB

From 1995: How did the horticulturist John Laroche become an orchid thief? #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/bMjHtN6

A profile of Tenzing Norkay, who had been on more Everest expeditions than any other man when he reached the top, in 1953. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/18Prhcm

Ernest Hemingway was “a writer who had in his time made the English language new, changed the rhythms of the way both his own and the next few generations would speak and write and think,” Joan Didion wrote. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/9bDqjRF

Though Dorothy Parker notoriously disliked A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh,” her scathing review, from 1928, did nothing to stop the book from becoming a classic. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/G8vs1v2

A profile of Tenzing Norkay, who had been on more Everest expeditions than any other man when he reached the top, in 1953. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/VgwzAwE

“This is how to love a man, and if this doesn’t work there are other ways.” Fiction by Jamaica Kincaid, from 1978. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/Ph5Gmny

From 2006: For Nora Ephron, moving into the Apthorp—a famous “stone pile” on the West Side of Manhattan—was to enter a state of giddy, rent-stabilized delirium. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/BuVssth

Radiohead’s music is “as engaging to the mind as anything that has been done in classical music recently,” Alex Ross wrote, in 2001—“but you could jump up and down to it.” #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/zDb1Fbz