The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

February 4, 2025

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "LOOK IN YOUR BAG" Come one, come all! (Subscribe to get the Supplement every week.) Poems: “Barbershop” by Clarence Major:...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (February 10)

February 4, 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: February 3

February 2, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 3 “A bunch of pieces in disparate styles are thrown together, leaving the audience to pick and choose favorites.”...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

January 29, 2025

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "My husband is home." This week’s Supplement is free for all readers. Subscribe to get it every week! Poems: “The Bay” by David...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (February 3)

January 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: January 27

January 26, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 27 “‘Educated, willowy, ironic women often go for trombone players.’” Must-Read: “Charlotte’s Place” - Michael...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

January 23, 2025

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Oh, man, I used to love playing with these things" Paid-exclusive again this week. Poems: I really strongly disliked both...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (January 27)

January 23, 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: January 20

January 20, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 20c “‘it’s really quite futile to fight fires with the hose at your house.’” Must-Read: The best thing in the...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

January 19, 2025

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "If that’s a pack of foxhounds" Paid-exclusive this week. Poems: “Sisters” by Lee Upton: An anxiety poem about afterlives and...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (January 20)

January 19, 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: January 13

January 18, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 13 “‘What’s a baby got pockets for? What’s it gonna keep in its pocket, a knife?’” Must-Read: “Mean Time” - Justin...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

January 16, 2025

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Your grandpa’s dead." Please note this is covering the Jan 13 issue (Roz Chast cover) and not the more recent issue. Ain’t...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (January 13)

January 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: 🌱 The Weekend Special (January 6)

January 12, 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: End-of-Year Edition

January 5, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker: End-of-Year Edition Below you'll find the Top 25 Pieces Review, a special Letters Section, and at the bottom my 10 Favorite Pieces of...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 30 & January 6

January 5, 2025

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 30 & January 6 “‘You’d always have to be quiet, because he was working on it at the table. I think it was called...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 31, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Well, get over it, jackass!" Happy new sletter! Poems: “Prelude in Grey Major” by Christian Wiman: The usual Wiman thing;...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (December 30)

December 31, 2024

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: December 23

December 30, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 23 “‘Just because I am a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one!’” Must-Read: “The Archivist” - Hilton Als...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 27, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "I hate brushing my teeth…" Free for all! Enjoy! Poems: “On Keats’s Seeking a Rhyme for ‘Breast’ in Each of His Three Last...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: 🌱 The Weekend Special (December 23)

December 27, 2024

The Weekend Special New year, new emoji. 🌱Pieces are given up to three Boyles (for fiction), Harrimans (for essays), or Parkers (for random picks). As with...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 16

December 25, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 16 Thanks for your patience, gentle scholars. Time waits for no man, but thankfully the magazine does take a week...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 14, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "And my next gift…" This week’s Supplement is for each of you hundred-some supporters… each one; personally. Well… alright, not...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (December 16)

December 14, 2024

The Weekend Special (December 16)Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 9

December 10, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of December 9 “Conan apparently died in 2017, but Milei habitually refers to him in the present tense, saying that he...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

December 7, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "…so then they hid the leg warmers in the closet where Jenny wouldn’t find them–" Another free week for the Supplement! Enjoy!...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (December 9)

December 7, 2024

The Weekend Special (December 9)Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: December 2

December 1, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 18 “The only stable currency was human insecurity, and those who trafficked in it did very well for themselves.”...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

November 27, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Relax," This one’s free for everyone! Enjoy! Poems: “Homage to Willie Mays” by Larry Levis: Levis is long passed; this is a...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (December 2)

November 27, 2024

The Weekend Special (December 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 25, 2024

November 24, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 25 “‘What Every Girl Should Know: NOTHING! By Order of the Post Office Department.’” Must-Read: “Gaining Control” -...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

November 23, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s such a nice day," I will make some of these free… But this one is again just for y’all paying few. Poems: “Before I Can...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (November 25)

November 23, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 25 – that’s last weekend, for those playing along at home.) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for...

here's that poem

November 16, 2024

Oops, the image to the poem I referenced in the letters page didn’t send. Here it is. Have a nice weekend everyone. Here’s another song for your troubles.

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 18, 2024

November 16, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 18 “When the Nazis dreamed of a radio in every home or a newsreel before every film, they did not imagine Germans...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

November 11, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Careful—" Another one just for paying guests. Ahoy. Poems: “Vigil” by Camille Rankine: A meditation on the theme of staying...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (November 18)

November 10, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 18) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 11, 2024

November 9, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 11 “a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.” I’m going to keep...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

November 5, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "The crisis is lifelong." This week’s supplement is just for us, subscribers. Welcome in. Poems: “Creation Theory” by Joy...

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

November 5, 2024

The Weekend Special (November 11) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: November 4, 2024

November 4, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of November 4 Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 28 “No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger,...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

November 3, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Ah," This week’s supplement is for paying subscribers! (It’s not gonna be a one-week-on, one-week-off thing, necessarily, but...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 28)

October 30, 2024

The Weekend Special (October 28) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 28, 2024

October 30, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 28 Exciting news from Last Week’s New Yorker headquarters! Now that I have a full-time job and am not in immediate...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

October 22, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s all there, but…" This week’s supplement is free! Enjoy. Poems: “As We Made Him” by Elizabeth Metzger: A kinda-ghazal,...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 21)

October 21, 2024

The Weekend Special (October 21) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: October 21, 2024

October 19, 2024

Last Week’s New Yorker, week of October 21 "a weary pantomime of thinking and feeling, outrage and offense." Must-Read: “Origin Story” - Parul Sehgal doesn’t...

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

October 15, 2024

The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "It’s still too heavy." This week’s supplement is paywalled. Thanks for paying! Poems: “Mother” by Dorothea Lasky: Aims for...

Last Week's New Yorker Review: ☀️ The Weekend Special (October 14)

October 14, 2024

The Weekend Special (September 2) Pieces are given up to three Jacksons (for fiction), Malcolms (for essays), or Rosses (for your picks). As with restaurant...