The New Yorker & Me

Photo by Igor Mikhalev, from Ian Frazier's "On the Prison Highway" In this series, I choose ten of my favorite New Yorker tra...

Pick of the Issue this week is James Wood’s absorbing “Visiting Hours” – a review of Harriet Clark’s novel The Hill . Wood calls it “superb...

Photo by Yael Malka, from Helen Rosner's "The Caribbean Resturant Reinventing the Momofuku Empire" I see that the Caribbean re...

Willem de Kooning, Suburb in Havana (1958) I just want to spotlight an extraordinary art review in this month’s London Review of Books – T...

This is the first post in my series “Homage to Hoagland,” in which I consider seven of Edward Hoagland’s best essays – one per month – and t...

Illustration by Janne Iivonen, from Ian Frazier's "The Maraschino Mogul" Reading the section of John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa 6” ...

Pick of the Issue this week is Lauren Collins’ “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.” At first, I wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. Was I interested in...

Photo by Lanna Apisukh, from Helen Rosner's "Misipasta" This is the seventh post in my series “Tables for Two Tango,” a celebr...

Jill Lepore (Photo by Kayana Szymczak) Congratulations to Jill Lepore! Her We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution won the 2026 P...

Edward Hoagland, in the Introduction to a 1993 re-issue of two of his essay collections – The Courage of Turtles and Walking the Dead Diamon...

Pick of the Issue this week is John McPhee’s brilliant “Tabula Rasa, Volume 6.” It appears that McPhee’s “old-man project” is working. It’s...

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