Last Week's New Yorker Review

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...