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.

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Best of 2019: Photos


Ivan Forde's photo for "Goings On About Town"























Here are my favorite New Yorker photos of 2019:

1. Ivan Forde's photo of The Illustrious Blacks for "Goings On About Town," January 7, 2019 (see above).

2. Mauricio Lima's photo for Jon Lee Anderson's "Blood Gold" (November 4, 2019).
















3. David Williams’ photo of Ali El Sayed for David Kortava’s “Kabab Café’s ‘Snout to Tail’ Delicacies” (August 23, 2019).























4. Shae Detar’s photo of Anderson .Paak for "Goings On About Town" (February 18 & 25, 2019).























5. Dolly Faibyshev’s photo for Shauna Lyon’s “A Tel Aviv Restaurant Brings Bacchanalia and Technique to Hell’s Kitchen” (June 21, 2019).

















6. Pari Dukovic’s photo of Todd Haynes for John Lahr’s “The Director’s Cut” (November 11, 2019).























7. William Mebane’s photo for Hannah Goldfield’s “Hot Pot for the Type-A Personality at O:n°” (April 5, 2019).
















8. Katy Grannan’s photo for Ian Frazier’s “Pumper’s Corner” (February 18 & 25, 2019).


















9. Joakim Eskildsen’s photo for James Lasdun’s “Glow” (April 29, 2019)



















10. Yudi Ela’s photo for Hannah Goldfield’s “Tables For Two: Pilar Cuban Bakery / Win Son Bakery” (November 11, 2019)



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