Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Mar 4)
The Weekend Special (Mar 4) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Today there's a fiction review for you, and we're 4 paid subscribers away from also including the...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 4, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 4 "Now we've reached her, lo! the Captain / Gallant Kidd commands the crew / Passengers now their berths are clapt in /...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He thinks..." Due to a technical issue, this newsletter initially sent with all links broken. Since there are just 90 of you...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He thinks..." My apologies for the delay, dear readers. Buttondown encountered a rare glitch and deleted my 95%-written...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Feb 26)
The Weekend Special (Feb 26) Welcome to the Weekend Special (which will hopefully be published within the actual weekend, in future.) We're starting with...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 26, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 26 "'The parchment is hairy,' one disgruntled scribe penned on an offending manuscript." We're still 8 paid...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "This is embarrassing." Poems: "Thought a Rarity on Paper" by Billy Collins: Relatively tolerable for Collins because it's...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: Fiction Extravaganza
Last Week’s New Yorker, fiction extravaganza. "swirling a dollop of Ampro gel with Vaseline so that the gel wouldn’t crust up." We're now just 8 paid...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 12 & 19, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 12 & 19 "I was also friendly with a plainspoken girl jock who covered her notebooks with Magic Marker drawings of...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "This winged toddler..." Poems: "Definition" by Michael Ondaatje: An extended etymological dive into Sanskrit is quite lovely...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 5, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 5 "It's like if you take a fifty-year-old car, in pristine condition, out of the garage and start using it on your...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Howard isn't very ambitious." Poems: "Silo" by Sophie Cabot Black: A strange, fragmented vision of the singular "one to ladder...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: January 29, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 29 "How handsome you are. You're lovely! And how welcoming! You're kind and full of crickets – I think they're...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I ran away..." Poems: "Habibti Ghazal" by Hala Alyan: The speaker looks back at their nineteen-year-old self. Clever in its...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: January 22, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 22 "Balanchine? The Book of Job? Harry Potter? Arsenic?" We're up to 19 new paid subscribers out of the 25 I need by...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Damn it, doesn't anybody on this ship..." Poems: "Dragonflies" by Gregory Pardlo: Plays against Pardlo's strength, which is an...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: January 15, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 15 "There are dozens of exercises for the eyes alone." We're up to 15 new paid subscribers out of the 25 I need by...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It's my second rodeo..." Poems: "Thought Experiment" by Katherine Barnett: Feels of a piece with Sabrina Imbler's brilliant...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: End-of-Year Edition
Last Week’s New Yorker: End-of-Year Edition Howdy y'all! Thanks for continuing to bear with the Buttondown transition. If you tried to upgrade to a paid...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: January 1 & 8, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 1 & 8 "One of the attendees had come out to do his morning Tai Chi and unknowingly ended up at the event." Happy new...