The New Yorker & Me

This is the fourth in a series of twelve monthly posts in which I’ll reread three of my favorite travel books – Robert Macfarlane’s The Old ...

Photo by John MacDougall I love graffiti. I’m always on the lookout for it when I’m cycling. A few weeks ago, when I was in Portugal, I saw ...

This week’s issue features a cover by the great Maira Kalman. An ecstatic bouquet of fuscia, magenta, hot pink, yellow, orange, purple bloom...

Beauty lives, surely, in a harmonious excitement of particulars. I believe this is true. It’s from John Updike’s “Logic Is Beautiful” (inclu...

Photo by Gabriel Zimmer, from Hannah Goldfield's "Peter Luger Steak House") For my fifth post in this series, I want to compar...

Illustration by Aldo Jarillo, from Alex Ross's "What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?" A few years ago, I posted ...

Pick of the Issue this week is Sarah Larson’s “Talk of the Town” story “Big Time.” It’s a mini-profile of master rigger Joe Vilardi, who in...

Portrait of John Updike by David Levine A special shout-out to James Wolcott for his brilliant, witty, perceptive  “What you can get away wi...

This is the third in a series of twelve monthly posts in which I’ll reread three of my favorite travel books – Robert Macfarlane’s The Old W...

Photo by John Holloway, from John McPhee's "Season on the Chalk" In this series, I choose ten of my favorite New Yorker travel...

I love photography writing. There’s an interesting piece by Hilton Als in this week’s New Yorker . It’s a review of “Eugène Atget: The Maki...

Ben McGrath’s wonderful “Talk” story “Ice Capades,” in this week’s issue, tells about his recent visit to Red Bank, New Jersey, to see a le...