Robert Leighton’s Twenty Year Cartoon Retrospective Robert Leighton, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2002, has been posting a drawing a day from each year he’s been with the magazine. You can see them all (so far) here on his Instagram account. ________________________________________________________________________ Emma Allen And Roz Chast In Conversation From The Art Students League, notice of a
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On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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Three New Books On The Horizon Tom Toro posted on social media the news of a collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Group, coming out this Fall. (Andrews McMeel publishing). Thanks to Stephen Nadler of
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The just reissued Saul Steinberg 1945 collection, All In Line, caused me to dig out my 1947 paperback copy (shown above) I’ve had for quite a while. Because the paper is brittle and the pages threaten to detach, I don’t go to it very often. It took this 2024 edition to remind me — gadzooks! — that I do not
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