Introduction

What is The New Yorker? I know it’s a great magazine and that it’s a tremendous source of pleasure in my life. But what exactly is it? This blog’s premise is that The New Yorker is a work of art, as worthy of comment and analysis as, say, Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Each week I review one or more aspects of the magazine’s latest issue. I suppose it’s possible to describe and analyze an entire issue, but I prefer to keep my reviews brief, and so I usually focus on just one or two pieces, to explore in each the signature style of its author. A piece by Nick Paumgarten is not like a piece by Jill Lepore, and neither is like a piece by Ian Frazier. One could not mistake Collins for Seabrook, or Bilger for Goldfield, or Mogelson for Kolbert. Each has found a style, and it is that style that I respond to as I read, and want to understand and describe.

Friday, December 29, 2017

Best of 2017: Photos


 Mauricio Lima, "Women and Children Mourning the Death of Two Kurdish Soldiers" (2017)

















Here are my favorite New Yorker photographs of 2017:

1. Mauricio Lima’s “Women and Children Mourning the Death of Two Kurdish Soldiers,” for Luke Mogelson’s “Dark Victory” (November 6, 2017).

2. Mauricio Lima’s “Female Fighters for the Syrian Democratic Forces," for Luke Mogelson’s “Dark Victory” (November 6, 2017).
















3. Thomas Prior’s “Irad and Jose Ortiz,” for John Seabrook’s “Top Jocks” (December 4, 2017).























4. William Mebane’s “Tim Ho Wan,” for Jiayang Fan’s “Tables For Two: Tim Ho Wan” (April 17, 2017).














5. Victor J. Blue’s “Captain Basam Attallah Shoots at a Cache of ISIS Explosives,” for Luke Mogelson’s “The Avengers of Mosul” (February 6, 2017).
















6. Daniel Shea’s “Peter Doig,” for Calvin Tomkins’s “Somewhere Different” (December 11, 2017).























7. Nadine Ijewere’s “Lynette Yiadom-Boakye,” for Zadie Smith’s “A Bird of Few Words” (June 19, 2017).























8. Dina Litovsky’s “Phil Young,” for Nicolas Niarchos’s “Tables For Two: Lenox Saphire” (January 2, 2017).














9. Nadav Kander’s “Julian Assange,” for Raffi Khatchadourian’s “Man Without a Country” (August 21, 2017).























10. Amy Lombard’s “Sexy Taco/Dirty Cash,” for Nicolas Niarchos’s “Tables For Two: Sexy Taco/Dirty Cash” (February 6, 2017).


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