Lemurian Congress

Having -- like most of the rest of the country -- concluded that the newly-born depression was no big deal, The New Yorker, managed to virt...

As best as I can glean from the pages of The New Yorker, 1930 was the year of: Backgammon. All the department stores were selling deluxe set...

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...

The articles in the 1929 New Yorker continue to use the stock market crash as fodder for jokes and insults, but now the advertisers are tr...

I've mentioned in the past that, because I am reading The New Yorker back issues chronologically, I am anxious to see historical events ...

I continue to be on "Wall Street Crash" watch while reading the New Yorker. By late 1929 I've seen a ton of advertisements whi...

Seeing these happy, upscale New Yorkers playing "Ticker: The Wall Street Game" in the middle of 1929 rings my irony warning-bells,...