Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 11, 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
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
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
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
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
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...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 30, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 30 Must-Read: “If Not Now, Later” - Yiyun Li tends to what blooms. The magazine has lately been on a real kick of...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 23, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 23 Must-Read: “Hot Air” - Heidi Blake speaks for the trees that carbon-offset credits allegedly help preserve. I was...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 16, 2023
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 16 Must-Read: “Long Exposure” - Julian Lucas focuses on Teju Cole’s new novel about looking. Lucas’ summary of Cole’s...
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...