A Jaunt Down Memory Lane

Skip to main contentNewsletterThe LatestNewsBooks & CultureFiction & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazinePuzzles & GamesVideoPodcastsGoings OnShopSketchbookRevisiting Mrs. Mintz’s medical woes and veal Parmesan.By Roz ChastJuly 20, 2026New Yorker FavoritesHow “Gone with the Wind” shaped American myths about slavery and Southern women.A scientist with a Ph.D. from Harvard fatally shot three of her colleagues. Then revelations about her family history came to light.The hidden harms of CPR.The case against travel.A Marilyn Monroe-J.F.K. mystery.Shouts & Murmurs: Ayn Rand reviews children’s movies.Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker.Roz Chast has been a New Yorker cartoonist since 1978. Her books include the graphic narrative “I Must Be Dreaming,” publish