Early Cover Release The New Yorker occasionally early posts next week’s cover. Here’s The February 9th cover, by Till Lauer. The issue will be published Monday morning. ________________________________________________________ Drew Dernavich Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Drew Dernavich, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002, returns to the Cartoon Caption Contest this week. Listen here (It’s episode #236
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I recently picked up Mary Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (Knopf, 2017). With biographies, I usually go right to the index to check out New Yorker intersections and found plenty on Lillian Ross (because of her well-known portrait of Hemingway, “How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen? The Moods Of Ernest Hemingway” that ran in the issue of May 13,
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Event Of Interest: Akeem Roberts At The Brooklyn Public Library From The Brooklyn Public Library website, this notice of a February 24, 2026 appearance by Akeem Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019 (the issue of July 8th). Visit his website here. Note: Mr . Roberts is one of 52 New Yorker artists profiled in the book
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Tuesday Spill: The New Yorker Centenary Covers…Puzzlements! Looking over the covers of The New Yorker’s special issues celebrating the magazine’s 100th birthday I came upon a few instances that caused me to wonder. Please bear with me as I take a tour through the particulars below; I apologize ahead of time
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