One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. 'The New Yorker' magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully - and more originally and more surprisingly - than any other modern journal.
Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the twenties and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, 'The New Yorker's Profiles' have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age.
Here you will find Kenneth Tynan on Johnny Carson, Truman Capote on Marlon Brando, Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway and Janet Flanner on Isadora Duncan. These literary-journalistic investigations into character accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, are unrivalled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity.
