My father’s most famous story was published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964. Its hero, a Waspy, aging, and boyish suburban businessman named Neddy Merrill, is hanging out at a neighbor’s pool on a ...

In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964. By Walker Mimms “Oh, how bonny and lush were the banks of ...