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Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 28
July 25, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 28, 2025 “Forty chefs showed up for her funeral, all in white toques.” Must-Read: “The Case for Lunch” (Dept. of...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · July 22, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "HUMAN-ERROR BABY CORN IN DELICIOUS CORN WATER" You know the drill: Just us chickens. Poems: “Astounding Stories” by Robert...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🥐 The Weekend Special (July 28)
July 22, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Knapps (for fiction), Downeys (for essays), or Fords (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 21
July 21, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 21, 2025 “the intoxicating combination of performative loucheness and cocaine-fuelled creativity” Must-Read: None of the...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
July 18, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He’s gone off on a jazzy riff before," Best pair of poems in quite a while! So come on in, all. Poems: “Girlfriends” by Kim...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🥐 The Weekend Special (July 21)
July 18, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Knapps (for fiction), Downeys (for essays), or Fords (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: July 7 & 14
July 18, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of July 7 & 14, 2025 “One reason those queens loved Barthes, I think, without entirely understanding structuralism as a...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · July 14, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "The plural of ‘deer’ is ‘deer’" I am SO grumpy re: the cartoons this week that this has to be a subscriber-only edition....
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🥐 The Weekend Special (July 7)
July 14, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Knapps (for fiction), Downeys (for essays), or Fords (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 30
July 8, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 30, 2025 “many female friends who, before settling down with men you’d go to Pottery Barn with, enthusiastically bedded...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
June 30, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "MACHINES MUST BE WIPED DOWN AFTER USE" Alright, I was going to make this subscriber-only because I really didn’t like the...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🥐 The Weekend Special (June 30)
June 26, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Knapps (for fiction), Downeys (for essays), or Fords (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even one...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 23
June 25, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 23, 2025 “seafoam-green Gatorade-and-Midori slushies” Must-Read: “Ladies’ Night” (On and Off the Menu) - Hannah...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · June 23, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s summer, and you know what THAT means!" I’m just gonna keep making these subscriber-only until there are poems I like...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (June 23)
June 22, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 16
June 21, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 16 “she flacked Sanka decaffeinated coffee” Not listed as a theme issue, but seems to be one; call it “A Woman Who...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · June 14, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Sometimes I wish we hadn’t" Thanks for your money! Poems: “The Terminal” by Rick Barot: The first six words are the most...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (June 16)
June 14, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 9
June 10, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 9 “pigs that had been trained as watchdogs” Must-Reads: “Turbulence” (Annals of Aviation) - Laurie Gwen Shapiro charts...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · June 7, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "What? Too ribald?" Poems: “Inquest” by Ellen Bass: An elegant poem-in-questions that explores a woman’s death by suicide by...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (June 9)
June 5, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: June 2
June 4, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of June 2 “for migraines an unguent of roses, applied to the temples and forehead.” Must-Read: “No-Pain Gains” (Annals of...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · May 30, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "We all feel like your book-club selection" Just us paying few! Tell your friends. Poems: “Even Here It Is Happening” by Ada...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (June 2)
May 30, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 26
May 28, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 26 “ersatz-paganistic goings on in the background: men wearing ram’s heads, a naked maiden, spectral servants.” Must-...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
May 27, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Sure, my horse talks to me," Welcome. Poems: “Last Exit” by Rowan Ricardo Phillips: Opens in a moment that gives way to a...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (May 25)
May 27, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 12 & 19
May 27, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 12 & 19 “the demotic tone, the direct address, the sense of a great organ yelling into power’s ear and being overheard...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
May 18, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "ROMANTIC COMEDY" a high pitched whistling noise emerges from the newsletter machine Poems: “What Happened to New York” by Anne...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (May 12)
May 18, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: May 5
May 8, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of May 5 “‘She never really was a Zionist,’ one woman remarks of her mother. ‘She only went for the weather.’” Must-Read:...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · May 4, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Great job, honey." Thanks for payin’. Poems: “Henry’s Ode” by John Berryman: From a new collection of uncollected Dream Songs....
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (May 5)
May 3, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 28
May 2, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 28 “lettuce grew in the courtyard of a destroyed building.” Must-Reads: “Hospitals in Ruins” (Letter from Gaza) -...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · April 26, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Looks like…" Just you paying few. Poems: “Madrigal” by Spencer Reece: Seems like it’s going to be about the speaker’s parents,...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (April 28)
April 21, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 21
April 21, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 21 “the relieved, the vengeful, the doubtful, and the desperate-for-a-byline” Must-Reads: “Starved In Jail” (A Reporter...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · April 20, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Your approval rating has plummeted" Hey you. (Just us.) Poems: “Midnight Nest” by Arthur Sze: Four of Sze’s usual nature...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (April 21)
April 20, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 14
April 20, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 14 “a room with a bed, a desk, and a shower, where writers can isolate themselves from distractions, in a process known...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
April 16, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "When I was a kid, we didn’t have smartphones." I think we’re alone now… I meant to send this only to the paying peeps but I...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (April 14)
April 15, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: April 7
April 14, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of April 7 “‘(yes, I’m talking/to your hundreds of pages smeared with bullshit.)’” I’m on spring break this week, so barring...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
April 9, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "You’ve entered the final stage of grief" Come one, come all. Poems: “Day One” by Bon Iver, Dijon, and Flock of Dimes: These...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (April 7)
April 8, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: March 31
March 31, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 31 “a seemingly endless supply of alcohol and cocaine, which he served from a large pepper grinder” Must-Read: “Open...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
$ · March 30, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Hey, I can’t murder people" You know the drill: Just us chickens. Poems: “Arms” by Richie Hofmann: Disappearance, death,...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (March 31)
March 30, 2025
The Weekend SpecialPieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with restaurant stars, even...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: March 24
March 29, 2025
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 24 “an extended live-work situation in newly-besieged-by-digital-nomads Portugal” Allegedly, this is the Spring Style &...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
March 24, 2025
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I said, ‘Your approval means nothing to me’" The supplement is free for everyone this week! (All your inbox is belong to us.)...
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