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.

Monday, December 30, 2019

Best of 2019: Illustrations


Sergiy Maidukov's illustration for Alex Ross's "The Concerto Challenge"























Here are my favorite New Yorker illustrations of 2019:

1. Sergiy Maidukov’s illustration for Alex Ross’s “The Concerto Challenge,” March 25, 2019 (see above).

2. Sergiy Maidukov's illustration for Hua Hsu's "Dance About Dance" (December 9, 2019)






















3. Nancy Liang’s illustration for James Marcus’s “A Dark Ride” (October 29, 2019)












4. Liam Hopkins’ illustration for Steve Smith’s “Garden Music” (August 19, 2019)
















5. Max Dalton’s illustration for Andrea K. Scott’s “Fall Preview” (August 26, 2019).























6. Leo Espinosa’s illustration for Nick Paumgarten’s “Unlike Any Other” (June 24, 2019).























7. Aude Van Ryn's illustration for Andrea K. Scott's "At the Galleries" (November 4, 2019)

















8. Keith Negley’s illustration for Nick Paumgarten’s “The Symptoms” (November 11, 2019).























9. Daniel Salmieri's illustration for Mark Binelli's "Arrivederci, Little Italy" (December 8, 2019)












10. João Fazenda’s illustration for Adam Gopnik’s “If You Listen” (August 19, 2019).






















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