As with so much new-to-me New Yorker material, new-to-me James Thurber material keeps popping up. A for instance: His introduction to New Yorker writer Mary Mian’s 1947 novel, My Country-In-Law (the title ever-so-vaguely reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, published in 2021). I bought a copy of Ms. Mian’s book not knowing how long the Thurber intro would be
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Fave Photo Of The Day: Otto Soglow A link to this photo turned up in my inbox this morning. I’ve seen the photo before over the years, and have always slightly puzzled over it. The puzzling part is where Mr. Soglow
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First And Last: William Hamilton A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last William Hamilton, a New Yorker cartoonist mainstay for forty-eight years, owned one of the most recognizable
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We’re in the second week of a double issue, so no new New Yorker (and thus, no new New Yorker cartoons) to peruse this morning. Have you ever wondered when The New Yorker started doubling up issues? The magazine was a weekly from its (famous) first issue, dated February 21, 1925 all the way til December 20, 1993. It managed
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