Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 9, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 9 Must-Reads: “Big Little Lies” - Gideon Lewis-Kraus fudges the numbers with the behavioral economists whose work on...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 2, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 2 Must-Read: “Behind a Locked Door” - Margaret Talbot goes to Austria with a woman who was held in a...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 25, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 25 Must-Read: “Makeover” - Molly Fischer reads the Glossier dossier. Makes a canny and surprising choice to focus...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 18, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 18 Must-Read: “Hot and Bothered” - Parul Sehgal is on the case of James Ellroy, whose new book features Marilyn...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 11, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 11 Must-Read: “The Coup” - Jonathan Dee reads a new work of autofiction by a cultural advisor to Salvador Allende...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: September 4, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of September 4 This week’s magazine is the yearly(ish) Archival Issue, this time structured around animals. The archival issue...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 28, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 28 I was featured in Bradley Tusk’s podcast Firewall this week — you can listen to my interview here. Hello to all new...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 21, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 21 Must-Read: “Shark Bait” - Helen Shaw sees The Shark is Broken, a “dad play about a dad movie written for dad...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 14, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 14 What an excellent issue. If you have to pick one edition to take to the beach and read front-to-back… this is the...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: August 7, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 7 Must-Read: “Taste of Cherry” - Katy Waldman reads Ann Patchett’s “wistful,” optimistic new novel. Manages to...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 31, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 31 Must-Read: “Money on the Wall” - Patrick Radden Keefe looks deep into the eyes of Larry Gagosian, art dealer...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 24, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 24 Must-Read: “A Land Held Hostage” - Jon Lee Anderson surveys the burning wreck of Haiti, where gangs have grasped...
My 5 Favorite Articles of the Year So Far!
Hey there!If you’re new to this newsletter (quite a few newcomers here from a recent “note”) or just never quite sure what’s going on, here’s the short...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 10 & 17, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 10 & 17 Must-Read: “Toy Story” - Alex Barasch chokes on Barbie’s pooper-scooper. A delightfully dry disassembly of...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 3, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 3 Must-Read: “You Good?” - Nikhil Khrishnan rereads Aristotle’s Ethics, and illuminates what it does and doesn’t say....
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 26, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 26, 2023 Must-Read: “Bitter Pill” - Gideon Lewis-Kraus asks whether A.L.S. patients are being helped or hurt by the...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 19, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 19, 2023 A pleasant reminder that paying subscribers receive The Cartoon and Poem Supplement each week. How can cartoon...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 12, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 12, 2023 Must-Reads: “Back From the Dead” - Merve Emre reads Susan Taubes, whose darkly philosophical, Beckett-inflected...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 5, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 5, 2023 Must-Read-On-June-23rd-And-No-Sooner: “Soul Survivors” - Burkhard Bilger spins Stax records, on the occasion of...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 29, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 29, 2023 Must-Read: “The Mozart Effect” - James Wood reacts to the great composer, and compares his notes to those of...