Somehow, LWNY returned...

August 15, 2024

Hey all, This week’s magazine is a comedy-themed Archive Issue, which made me think it was an apt time to try something funny around here. I decided to mash...

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

August 10, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 12 "Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat." Apologies for the slight delay, dear readers; I’ve been...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · August 6, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "You’re doing well in the Bible Belt" Poems: “Mr. Cogito and Certain Mechanisms of Memory” by Zbigniew Herbert: This bears the...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (August 5)

August 5, 2024

The Weekend Special (August 5) Before we get started, I wanted to make a note in a free edition that paid subscribers have been getting archival cartoon...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: August 5, 2024

July 31, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of August 5 "A line like ‘I will never be able to find my way out of this forest’ needs a twinge of fear." Must-Read: “Forbidden...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · July 29, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Suck it up, hold it in." Poems: “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wireless Warning System” by Dobby...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (July 29)

July 29, 2024

The Weekend Special (July 29) 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: July 29, 2024

July 25, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 29 "like a feckless baby elephant stranded on the veldt." Must-Reads: The best thing in this issue is the short story by...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · July 22, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "But he’s always been nice" Poems: “Mother” by Jim Moore: Takes multiple turns. First it’s observational/confessional, with a...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (July 22)

July 22, 2024

The Weekend Special (July 22) 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: July 22, 2024

July 19, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 22 "Damnation to the Governour and Confusion to the Colony" Must-Reads: “The Power of the Pirates” - Daniel Immerwahr...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · July 15, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I CREATED MAN THIRTY-ONE HOURS AGO." Poems: “Port of Havana” by Nancy Morejón: A short observational poem from Cuba. Perfectly...

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

July 15, 2024

The Weekend Special (Midyear) Time for a midyear refresh! Here’s what’s been changed: The emoji in the subject line!The award names!1New occasional section...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: Best of the Year So Far

July 10, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, Best of the Year So Far Okay, that cartoons-through-time thing was a big hit, so there will be more of that coming at some point...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement Special: Mid-Feb Through the Ages

July 8, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement Special Since the magazine is off this week but I’m not burnt out, let’s try something different! I’m gonna read through the...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (July 8 & 15)

July 6, 2024

The Weekend Special (July 8 & 15) Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: July 8 & 15, 2024

July 4, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 8 & 15 "un petit verre pour cinq pounds!" Must-Reads: “Casting a Line” - Kathryn Schulz runs through the brief oeuvre of...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · July 1, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "OH, DON’T WORRY" Poems: “Wallpaper Poem” by Phillis Levin: A sort of commodity fetishism as resistance takes hold – Levin is...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (July 1)

June 29, 2024

The Weekend Special (July 1) Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant stars,...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: July 1, 2024

June 25, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 1 "sometimes choir-boy-pure, sometimes huskier in tone." Must-Read: “Medieval Longing” - Alex Ross rides the mass...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · June 24, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "On his side, so I can watch him lying down." Poems: “Breaking” by Gboyega Odubanjo: Deeply eerie echoes of the poet’s own...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (June 24)

June 23, 2024

The Weekend Special (June 24) Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant stars,...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: June 24, 2024

June 21, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 24 "Surprised Eel Historian, PhD" Must-Read: “Ghosts on the Water” - Paige Williams respects her elvers.1 Those with...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · June 17, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Why settle for itsy-bitsy" Correction! Last week I structured my whole review of David Biespiel’s excellent poem “Half Hour to...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (June 17)

June 16, 2024

The Weekend Special (June 17) Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant stars,...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: June 17, 2024

June 13, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 17 "scheming generals, poison vials, and Albanians parachuting to certain death." Must-Read: “Everything in Hand” -...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · June 10, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He’s not the rightful king" Poems: “Half Hour to Aberdour” by David Biespiel: A Jew journeying through Ireland will always put...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (June 10)

June 9, 2024

The Weekend Special (June 10) Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant stars,...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: June 3, 2024

June 7, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 3 "‘That’s gauche, maudlin, inaccurate — and uncomplimentary to the Pope.’" Must-Read: “The Long Ride” - William...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · June 5, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "PANIC BUTTON" Poems: “The Age of Miracle Weapons” by D. Nurkse: Crucial backstory here is that Nurkse’s father is a famous...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (June 3)

June 5, 2024

The Weekend Special (June 3) I was in transit at the beginning of this week – thanks for your patience. Some very good stuff this not-a-weekend. Pieces are...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: June 3, 2024

June 1, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 3 "‘killah grinds’" For the second time in three weeks, my print edition of the magazine simply never arrived. I usually...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · May 28, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "See you later, alligator." Poems: “Marigold” by Mary Jo Bang: Only three weeks since the previous Bang joint! As ever, a...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (May 27)

May 27, 2024

The Weekend Special (May 27) Guess what?1 Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: May 27, 2024

May 24, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 27 "the vexed ontological question of whether blowing up little green pigs with crates of cartoon TNT does or does not...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · May 20, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "If God is omnipotent…" Poems: From “Heritage” by Elise Paschen: Very rare to have an excerpt of a poem in the magazine. This...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (May 20)

May 19, 2024

The Weekend Special (May 20) C’mon in! Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: May 20, 2024

May 19, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 20 "‘If I call my sister in Miami on FaceTime, I don’t tell her, “Hey, I’m visiting you in Miami!”" Hey there! This...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · May 13, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It doesn’t work." Poems: “Theology” by Ocean Vuong: The first half has, I’m sure, some kind of internal logic, but it feels...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (May 13)

May 13, 2024

The Weekend Special (May 13) Howdy. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: May 13, 2024

May 9, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 13 "the pensive gaze of a protester whose face is obscured by a kaffiyeh" Must-Gaze: “A Campus in Crisis” - Jelani Cobb...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · May 6, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "That’s not fair." Poems: “Crossing Byways” by Yusef Komunyakaa: I don’t always vibe with – or, maybe, fully understand –...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (May 6)

May 6, 2024

The Weekend Special (May 6) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: May 6, 2024

May 3, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 6 "‘My imitation of a nonintrusive, permanent bannister.’" (shakes off the rust…) We’re back! Must-Read: Both must-reads...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · April 29, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Did we really have to come…" We’re back! Poems: “Second Nature” by Paul Tran: It’s tricky, you know… self-love in a slam poem...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (Apr 22 & 29)

April 21, 2024

The Weekend Special (Apr 22 & 29) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: April 15, 2024

April 18, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 15 "She appeared not to have got much sun lately; I touched her up with a little blush." This week is the Innovation &...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · April 15, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I can say literally anything" Poems: "Hyacinth" by Catherine Barnett: A meditation on loss and corporeality. The dollar store...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (Apr 15)

April 14, 2024

The Weekend Special (Apr 15) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags (for essays), or Herseys (for your...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: April 15, 2024

April 13, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 15 "'Dig like a mole if you don't want to die.'" Must-Read: "The Assault" - Luke Mogelson waits for snow with the 1st...