The Gray Lady Covers The New York Public Library New Yorker Centennial Exhibit From The New York Times, March 5, 2025, “A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives” In an (almost) otherwise fine article devoted to the New York Public Library exhibit “A Century Of The New Yorker” it amazes me (and saddens me) that the magazine’s
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Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
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On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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The New Yorker’s 100th Celebration: Video Of Interest… David Remnick On The Daily Show Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on The Daily Show, talking New Yorker history and current politics with Jon Stewart. Nice seeing Eustace Tilley there too! _____________________________________________________________________________ Great Book: The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 Back in the late 1980s, when
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