The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated.
"I feel like when we win, everybody wins," said Time managing editor Rick Stengel in a ballroom at the New York Marriott Marquis Thursday night, accepting a National Magazine Award for magazine of the year, the evening's top honor. Of course, everybody did not win.
As originally designed, Bob Staake's delightful March 12 New Yorker cover featured Santorum driving a car with Romney strapped to the roof.
On Friday, The New Yorker's Ben Greenman kicked off a contest called Questioningly, asking "If you could eliminate a single word from the English language, what would it be?" We, in response, asked "If you could eliminate a single word from The New Yorker, what would it be?"
If you could eliminate a single word from The New Yorker, what would it be?
Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, on the fall of newspapers, cable news, and blogs and the rise of Twitter in his media menu.
Keith Gessen was one of the more notable arrests at the Nov. 17 Occupy Wall Street protest, and he detailed his time in custody in a Monday New Yorker blog post that will make you think twice about voluntarily getting arrested.
Around the same time he was voicing support for Occupy Wall Street, Malcolm Gladwell participated in a speaking tour to help Bank of America win new small business customers.
Robert Crumb has revealed the politically charged New Yorker cover over which he quit over a year and a half ago, making The New Yorker look cowardly for rejecting his controversial image.
Satoshi Nakamoto founded the virtual currency, but nobody knows who that really is
Culture editor John Swansburg is moving to The New Yorker's web team
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