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...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

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The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "(C) A waltz of some sort" Poems: "Stitch" by Rae Armantrout: A wonderful little nugget of Armantroutian goodness – a...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (Apr 8)

April 7, 2024

The Weekend Special (Apr 8) 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 8, 2024

April 5, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 8 "I am worried that my children are not warriors and are lost in it." Must-Read: "Opportunity Cost" - Peter Hessler...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · April 1, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "That and tequila." Poems: "Today, My Hope Is Vertical" by Jane Hirshfield: A little cute for me – definitely the sort of thing...

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

March 31, 2024

The Weekend Special (Apr 1) 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 1, 2024

March 28, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 1 "guttural distortions of pitch, cawing glissandos, clattering bowing effects" Let's try something. I'm loathe to...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · March 25, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Careful." Poems: "To You" by Maxine Scates: A roving run-on memory circling the theme of grief. It's all a bit literal for me...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🍳 The Weekend Special (Mar 25)

March 24, 2024

The Weekend Special (Mar 25) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Now with more 🍳 emojis, for the vibe. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction), Sontags...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 25, 2024

March 22, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 25 "Driving through Hollywood, you’d often see marquees advertising 'Live Nude Girls.' She’d say, 'Much better than the...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · March 18, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "There are secret ceremonies and things..." Poems: "Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red)" by W. S. DiPiero: Not exactly an ekphrasis,...

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

March 17, 2024

The Weekend Special (Mar 18) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction) or Sontags (for essays). As with restaurant...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 18, 2024

March 14, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 18 "'nothing,' 'hungry people,' 'dogs,' 'soldiers,' 'stairs,' 'houses,' 'gardens,' 'infidels,' 'my father.'" The...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · March 11, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "You're not supposed to..." Poems: "Late Shift" by Amy Woolard: There is a lot here. This has the feeling of many, many pages...

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

March 11, 2024

The Weekend Special (Mar 11) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Bear with me, these are going to come out on Mondays sometimes. We've hit the goal, so the...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 11, 2024

March 7, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 11 "The first day I met him, we drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniel's and I was laying on the couch going, 'Uhhh,' and...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · March 4, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Unfortunately, the balloons are..." Poems: "Invitation" by Daniel Halpern: Halpern is the white-afroed Ecco Press guy, he's...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Mar 4)

March 3, 2024

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

March 1, 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

$ · February 28, 2024

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

$ · February 28, 2024

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)

February 26, 2024

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

February 22, 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

$ · February 19, 2024

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

February 16, 2024

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

February 9, 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

$ · February 5, 2024

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

February 2, 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

$ · January 29, 2024

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

January 24, 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

$ · January 22, 2024

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

January 18, 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

$ · January 16, 2024

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

January 11, 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

$ · January 8, 2024

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

January 1, 2024

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

December 28, 2023

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...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

$ · December 25, 2023

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I'm sorry to trouble you yet again" Hey paying subscribers! Your subscriptions should now be active on Buttondown. Let me know...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 21, 2023

Hey! This email originally went out on Monday, but it may not have been delivered to paying subscribers, so I'm re-sending it! Welcome to our new Buttondown...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: December 25, 2023

December 21, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 25 Hey paying subscribers! My eternal gratitude for your support. I'm almost done ironing out the last few snafus...

Last Week’s New Yorker Review: December 25, 2023

December 21, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 25 Must-Read: Nothing quite rose to the level this week, since most of the issue consisted of comics (covered last...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 18, 2023

Hey! Welcome to our new Buttondown digs! I'm still getting used to the place, so apologies in advance for any technical blips. (And sorry to paid subscribers...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 18, 2023

December 15, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 18 Must-Read: “What Makes a Murder?” - Sarah Stillman relitigates felony murder, a system of laws that imprisons...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 11, 2023

December 8, 2023

Holy Cow! When I started this newsletter at the beginning of the year, I expected to entertain my parents and get some writing practice out of something I...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 4, 2023

November 30, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 4 Must-Reads: “Songs of Herself” - Helen Shaw breaks biographical off-Broadway. Shaw at her best — a very high bar....

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 27, 2023

November 24, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 27 Must-Reads: “Personal Statement” - Rachel Aviv is Joyce Carol Oates’ secret admirer. Fascinating. On the surface,...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 20, 2023

November 16, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 20 Must-Read: “The War on Chaplin” - Louis Menand takes pity on the little fellow. A straightforward history of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 13, 2023

November 9, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 13 Must-Read: “Man Down” - Anthony Lane croons for two “unlikely” flicks. Nothing revolutionary, just Lane at his...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 6, 2023

November 2, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 6 Must-Read: “Through the Smoke” - Carolyn Kormann assesses the damage to Maui after massive wildfires. An...