Edward Koren (1935–2023)
Cartoonist extraordinaire.
George Booth (1926–2022)
The New Yorker cartoonist was ninety-six.
Roger Angell (1920–2022)
One of the regrets of my teaching life is that I never found an occasion for asking students to read Angell’s 2014 essay about old age, “This Old Man.”
From The New Yorker
“Kim & Kanye & Pete & Julia” feels like a message of sorts: this is no longer for me, at least not on a subscription basis.
How to improve writing (no. 96)
And ad for Whitley Neill London Dry Gin.
“More traditional”?
The New Yorker calls the Sun Ra Arkestra “more traditional fare.”
New Yorker humor — and I’m out
I’ve been wavering about whether to let our subscription to The New Yorker lapse. I think this comedy bit has decided it for me.
“No Worries if Not!”
A year ago, The New Yorker capitalized “if” in titles. As recently as December 21, the magazine capitalized its “if” s. But by December 28, the capital was gone.
Edward M. Stringham’s archives
Mary Norris writes about the extraordinary archives of a New Yorker collator.
Cover for the turn of the year
A New Yorker cover by Harry Bliss.
A repurposed caption
I thought it might be fun to repurpose the caption from a recent New Yorker cartoon by Teresa Burns Parkhurst.
Jeffrey Toobin, exposed
“I thought I was off-camera” is a pretty limp excuse.
A little help?
A New Yorker cartoon I do not understand.
Say Their Names
A New Yorker cover by Kadir Nelson.
“Bedtime”
A New Yorker cover for these times, by Chris Ware.
How to improve writing (no. 86)
A sentence from The New Yorker.
Another delegitimatize
The thought of Trump and The New Yorker being on the same page usage-wise is, as a wishy-washy observer of politics might say, “troubling.”
New Yorker commas
Turning the pages of a January New Yorker, I noticed this tag at the end of a story: “Translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel.” Only The New Yorker, said I, would use commas there.
The New Yorker’s Jr.
Reading the May 6 New Yorker, I just noticed that the magazine also uses comma-Jr.-comma with first names: “Don, Jr., suggested to his father,” &c. And the possessive form: “Don, Jr.,’s role,” &c. What’s that they say about a foolish consistency?
Four years
A New Yorker cartoon.
How to improve writing (no. 80)
Rewriting a garden-path sentence from The New Yorker.
“Water Images of The New Yorker”
I’m delighted to see that Harper’s has Charles Bernstein’s “Water Images of The New Yorker ” online. It’s a funny take on what Bernstein terms “official verse culture.”
“Welcome to Congress”
A New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt.
“Closing In”
A Barry Blitt New Yorker cover.
“Thumbs-Up”
A New Yorker cover: “Thumbs-Up,” by Barry Blitt.
How to improve writing (no. 74)
“Certainly, no artist as hugely successful as he has been can have struck a chord without owning a piece of his time.” Yuck.
The next New Yorker cover
Anthony Russo, “In the Hole.”
“Fellow-billionaires”
Why does The New Yorker hyphenate it?
Blowhard
A New Yorker cover.
Scaramucci speaks
Anthony Scaramucci called Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker to chat.