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 Galchen, 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 28, 2018

Best of 2018: Photos


Lauren Lancaster, "Diana Tandia" (2018)
















Here are my favorite New Yorker photographs of 2018:

1. Lauren Lancaster, “Diana Tandia,” for Hannah Goldfield’s “Tables For Two: Berber Street Food” (October 29, 2018).

2. David S. Allee, “Naumburg Orchestral Concerts,” for “Goings On About Town” (July 23, 2018).


3. Davide Monteleone, “Su Xiaolan,” for “Portfolio: A New Silk Road” (January 8, 2018).


4. Dan Winters, “SpaceShip Two,” for Nicholas Schmidle’s “Rocket Man” (August 20, 2018).


5. George Steinmetz, “Rio Grande River,” for Nick Paumgarten’s ”Water and the Wall” (April 23, 2018).


6. Zora J. Murff, “Clarissa Glenn and Ben Baker,” for Jennifer Gonnerman’s “Framed” (May 28, 2018).

 

7. Krista Schlueter, “David Hockney,” for Françoise Mouly’s “David Hockney’s ‘The Road’ ” (newyorker.com, April 16, 2018).


8. William Mebane, “Nasim Alikhani,” for Hannah Goldfield’s “Tables For Two: Sofreh” (September 24, 2018).


9. Gillian Laub, “Alex Katz,” for Calvin Tomkins’ “Painterly Virtues” (August 27, 2018).


10. Dolly Faibyshev, “Le Sia,” for Hannah Goldfield’s “Tables For Two: Le Sia” (June 4 & 11, 2018).


11. Kevin Cooley, "The Woolsey Fire, Near Los Angeles, Seen from the West Hills," for Bill McKibben's "Life on a Shrinking Planet" (November 26, 2018).



12. Cait Opperman, "Habibi," for "Goings On About Town" (January 15, 2018)

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