The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker Note: as with last week, The New Yorker‘s digital issue, usually posted at 6:00 AM, has not yet been posted (as of 7:00 AM), so I’m forging ahead with this look at the new issue by using a listing of the
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Women Laughing, “a documentary film about the women cartoonists of The New Yorker, past and present,” will have its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival, October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM (est) at The Woodstock Community Center. (It will also be shown at two other, as yet unannounced, NYC/ Metro area festivals later this Fall). Text from the Festival
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Is Sex Necessary? (Again) Back in May, the Spill reported that James Thurber and E.B. White’s 1929 classic, Is Sex Necessary? had entered the public domain. The below version, published last month, showed up during one of my daily searches yesterday. We’ve come a long long way from that first edition. __________________________________________________________________________ Here’s a selection of the title published before
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Fave Photos Of The Week Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999, sent in these “snaps” of New Yorker folks from his weekend adventure at SPX. My thanks to Paul for sharing these with us. Above: Mr. Karasik on the left, with New Yorker cover artist, Tom Gauld. Above: Paul Karasik, Hilary Campbell, and Lonnie Millsap.
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