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The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "…so then they hid the leg warmers in the closet where Jenny wouldn’t find them–" Another free week for the Supplement! Enjoy!...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (December 9)

December 7, 2024

The Weekend Special (December 9)Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 2

December 1, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 18 “The only stable currency was human insecurity, and those who trafficked in it did very well for themselves.”...

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November 27, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Relax," This one’s free for everyone! Enjoy! Poems: “Homage to Willie Mays” by Larry Levis: Levis is long passed; this is a...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (December 2)

November 27, 2024

The Weekend Special (December 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 25, 2024

November 24, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 25 “‘What Every Girl Should Know: NOTHING! By Order of the Post Office Department.’” Must-Read: “Gaining Control” -...

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November 23, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s such a nice day," I will make some of these free… But this one is again just for y’all paying few. Poems: “Before I Can...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (November 25)

November 23, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 25 – that’s last weekend, for those playing along at home.) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for...

here's that poem

November 16, 2024

Oops, the image to the poem I referenced in the letters page didn’t send. Here it is. Have a nice weekend everyone. Here’s another song for your troubles.

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 18, 2024

November 16, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 18 “When the Nazis dreamed of a radio in every home or a newsreel before every film, they did not imagine Germans...

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November 11, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Careful—" Another one just for paying guests. Ahoy. Poems: “Vigil” by Camille Rankine: A meditation on the theme of staying...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (November 18)

November 10, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 18) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 11, 2024

November 9, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 11 “a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.” I’m going to keep...

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November 5, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "The crisis is lifelong." This week’s supplement is just for us, subscribers. Welcome in. Poems: “Creation Theory” by Joy...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (November 11)

November 5, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 11) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 4, 2024

November 4, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 4 Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 28 “No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger,...

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November 3, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Ah," This week’s supplement is for paying subscribers! (It’s not gonna be a one-week-on, one-week-off thing, necessarily, but...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 28)

October 30, 2024

The Weekend Special (October 28) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 28, 2024

October 30, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 28 Exciting news from Last Week’s New Yorker headquarters! Now that I have a full-time job and am not in immediate...

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October 22, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s all there, but…" This week’s supplement is free! Enjoy. Poems: “As We Made Him” by Elizabeth Metzger: A kinda-ghazal,...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 21)

October 21, 2024

The Weekend Special (October 21) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 21, 2024

October 19, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 21 "a weary pantomime of thinking and feeling, outrage and offense." Must-Read: “Origin Story” - Parul Sehgal doesn’t...

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October 15, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s still too heavy." This week’s supplement is paywalled. Thanks for paying! Poems: “Mother” by Dorothea Lasky: Aims for...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 14)

October 14, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 14, 2024

October 14, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 14 “‘My mind should be on Mosul / Not Eric’” Must-Reads: “The Sighted World” - Sage Mehta looks her father up and...

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October 11, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Paula, do you know where my green jacket is?" I’ve decided that the supplement, which has previously been only for paying...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 7)

October 11, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 7, 2024

October 5, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 7 "There’s something to be said for having to wait for an octet of sheep to move grudgingly out of your way as you...

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October 3, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "MY FIRST" Poems: “Under the Rubble” by Mosab Abu Toha: Less one long poem and more an onslaught of images, a series of gutting...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (September 30)

October 3, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 30) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 30, 2024

October 2, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 30 "(Best Portuguese Language Christian Album, for example)" I know this newsletter is by far the latest it’s ever...

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September 28, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Don’t make a hobby…" Poems: “I Nearly Died from the Socratic Method” by Diane Seuss: Impossible to find fault with this...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (September 23)

September 28, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 23) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 23, 2024

September 19, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 16 "The over-all effect was decapitated leather daddy." Must-Read: “Sniff Test” - Rachel Syme huffs bleached...

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September 16, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Oh, no—" Poems: “For Better or Worse” by Megan Fernandes: Describes its conceit a bit too forthrightly in the early going...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (September 16)

September 16, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 16) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 16, 2024

September 15, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 16 "traps made out of coffee cans and chicken flesh" This is allegedly the “Fall Books” issue, a theme which hasn’t...

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September 11, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "But you can eat as much as you want" Poems: “Outage” by Raven Leilani: Interesting to see Leilani, who is best known for her...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (September 9)

September 11, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 9) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 9, 2024

September 7, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 9 "’that woman on the Food Network whose husband only comes home on the weekends and she spends the rest of the...

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September 2, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I can neither confirm nor deny" Poems: “A Sunset” by Robert Hass: For better and worse, this feels like an old left-liberal...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (September 2)

September 1, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: September 2, 2024

August 29, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 2 "it’s neither a tale of eccentrics finding each other nor a tale of absurdism appearing sane in a mad world."...

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August 26, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Why do they always do that" Poems: “Sugar” by Andrea Cohen: A lovely run-on-sentence poem about stories and memory, how they...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (August 26)

August 26, 2024

The Weekend Special (August 26) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: August 12, 2024

August 24, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 26 "As I left the Leroy Merlin home-improvement store, I noticed an arrow pointing in the direction of the morgue"...

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The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He was a great painter in his youth" Poems: “While It’s Happening” by Deborah Landau: Lulls you half to sleep with its mundane...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (August 19)

August 20, 2024

The Weekend Special (August 19) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: August 19, 2024: The Whole Enchilada 🫔

August 17, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 19 "is this ok for a ten year old, my skin does get dry and my undereyes sometimes get super dry, any other...