Now That’s A Cover! (And An Essay!) The Complete Book of Covers From The New Yorker never fails to surprise me — it almost seems as if someone has added new covers for me to discover since the last time I paged through. The cover above, by H.O. Hofman (his sixth for the magazine in just eleven months), stood out
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Monday Spill Last week’s New Yorker was a double issue, dated September 1 & 8, 2025, meaning no new issue to page through. On this Labor Day in the 100th year anniversary of The New Yorker it seemed like a fun idea to take a look at the magazine’s very first cover published around Labor Day of 1925 (the actual
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Event Of Interest: Tom Toro In Conversation If you’re out Columbus, Ohio way this November, you’ll be able to catch Tom Toro in conversation with OSU’s Jenny Robb at The Thurber House. Mr. Toro began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. His collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Club, will
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Fave Photo Of The Week Ken Levine posted the below on social media the other day. A quintuple of cartoonists showed up to see Mr. Levine’s play, Back To The Drawing Board. — L-r: Lonnie Millsap, Lars Kenseth, Jose Arroyo, Ivan Ehlers, Mr. Levine, and Matt Diffee. _____________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Peter Kuper’s Wish We Weren’t Here
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