57 Years Ago In The New Yorker Why look at an issue from 57 years ago you might ask (instead of 50, 60 years ago, or 70, and so on)? The answer is convenience. A bound volume of New Yorkers covering September-October 1965 happens to be hanging around in the vicinity of my desk. It’s hanging around because it’s one
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a cover related to the issue’s theme, “Fall Style & Design” The Cartoonists & Cartoons Eight cartoons, eleven cartoonists (Roz Chast has a Sketchbook; Hilary Campbell has a Sketchpad; Paul Karasik has the Caption Contest drawing). One duo,
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library In 1915, a decade before The New Yorker Magazine was born, the book you see above, Journeys To Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks, was published by Yale University Press. One hundred-and-forty pages,
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A gem from the ever-active pen of the fab John Cuneo. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. John Cuneo has the cover, Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook,” and Liza Donnelly has the Caption Contest drawing. The
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