Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 16, 2023

October 12, 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

October 5, 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

September 28, 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

September 21, 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

September 14, 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

September 6, 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

August 31, 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

August 24, 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

August 16, 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

August 10, 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

August 2, 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

July 24, 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...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 24, 2023

July 19, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 24 Must-Read: “A Land Held Hostage” - Jon Lee Anderson surveys the burning wreck of Haiti, where gangs have grasped...

My 5 Favorite Articles of the Year So Far!

July 10, 2023

Hey there!If you’re new to this newsletter (quite a few newcomers here from a recent “note”) or just never quite sure what’s going on, here’s the short...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 10 & 17, 2023

July 6, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 10 & 17 Must-Read: “Toy Story” - Alex Barasch chokes on Barbie’s pooper-scooper. A delightfully dry disassembly of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 3, 2023

June 27, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 3 Must-Read: “You Good?” - Nikhil Khrishnan rereads Aristotle’s Ethics, and illuminates what it does and doesn’t say....

Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 26, 2023

June 21, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 26, 2023 Must-Read: “Bitter Pill” - Gideon Lewis-Kraus asks whether A.L.S. patients are being helped or hurt by the...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 19, 2023

June 14, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 19, 2023 A pleasant reminder that paying subscribers receive The Cartoon and Poem Supplement each week. How can cartoon...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 12, 2023

June 8, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 12, 2023 Must-Reads: “Back From the Dead” - Merve Emre reads Susan Taubes, whose darkly philosophical, Beckett-inflected...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 5, 2023

June 1, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 5, 2023 Must-Read-On-June-23rd-And-No-Sooner: “Soul Survivors” - Burkhard Bilger spins Stax records, on the occasion of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 29, 2023

May 25, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 29, 2023 Must-Read: “The Mozart Effect” - James Wood reacts to the great composer, and compares his notes to those of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 22, 2023

May 17, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 22, 2023 Must-Read: “Driven Around the Bend” - Adam Gopnik wonders why we cling to our cars. Really clever, in the...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 15, 2023

May 11, 2023

Cool! Last week, Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen’s widely read blog, was kind enough to include a link to this scrappy endeavor. That led to a big influx of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 8, 2023

May 4, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 8, 2023 Must-Reads: “The Fugitive Princesses” - Heidi Blake tracks Sheikha Latifa and her sister’s torture, abuse, and...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 24 & May 1, 2023

April 20, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 24 & May 1, Innovation & Tech Issue Must-Read: “The Language Game” - Carina Chocano talks to Luis von Ahn, the...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 17, 2023

April 13, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 17 Must-Read: “Oddballs and Odysseys” - Casey Cep surveys the Arkansan antics of Charles Portis, whose outlandish...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 10, 2023

April 5, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 10 Must-Read: “The Fog” - Larissa MacFarquhar paints a triple portrait of American adopted people: Deanna, who is white...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 3, 2023

March 30, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 3 Must-Read: “Crossover Artist” - Burkhard Bilger profiles the neuroscientist David Sulzer, who hopes to expand our...

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

March 21, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 27 (Spring Style & Design) Must-Read: "The Ozempic Era" - Jia Tolentino gets a scrip for the new weight-loss drugs...

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

March 15, 2023

Welcome! Lots of new readers have subscribed after this newsletter was featured in Today in Tabs, including a few of my favorite writers across the city and...

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

March 7, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 13 Must-Read: “Marriage of the Minds” - Rachel Aviv visits the philosopher Agnes Callard, her ex-husband Ben, and her...

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

March 2, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 6 Must-Read: “The Price of Belief” - Ben Taub unravels the tale of Wirecard, the German company running a fraud, and...

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

February 21, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 27 Must-Read: “Minister of Chaos” - Ruth Margalit scrutinizes Itamar Ben-Gvir, the new Israeli Minister of National...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: February 13 & 20, 2023

February 11, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 13 & 20 Must-Read: "Not Fooling Anyone" - Leslie Jamison disambiguates 'Impostor Syndrome.' The rare piece that...

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

February 1, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 6 Must-Reads: “Farewell Symphony” - Alex Ross pays tribute to conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Itself an “arresting...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: January 30, 2023

January 26, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 30 Must-Read: “Novels of Empire” - Elif Batuman reconsiders the great Russian novelists, in the wake of the war in...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: January 23, 2023

January 18, 2023

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 23 Must-Read: “Everyone’s a Critic” - Merve Emre dissects the field of professionalized literary studies, and wonders...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: January 16, 2023

January 11, 2023

Wow The warm reception of this newsletter has been a real pleasure. I’ve been reading “Today in Tabs” (the newsletter where most of you probably found this)...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: Week of January 2 & 9

January 5, 2023

Huh? Back in 2015-16 I was in love with an anonymously published newsletter called "The Tilly Minute" which would give capsule reviews, a few lines long, of...