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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...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · April 8, 2024
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...
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