The Most Evocative Magazine Covers of the Boston Marathon Bombing
Weekly magazines may be fewer and fewer, but after the week of the Boston Marathon bombing, they mean more and more right now.
The masters of the heartwarming, love-your-children promotional video at Google are tugging at the heartstrings of the American family once again with a new Mother's Day spot called "Here's to the Moms" — and they mean all moms.
Weekly magazines may be fewer and fewer, but after the week of the Boston Marathon bombing, they mean more and more right now.
This week's New Yorker cover has transformed the magazine's dandy, Eustace Tilley, into a bearded, bespectacled, beanie-wearing, bike-tattoo-having Brooklyn hipster.
We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but ....
The cover for this week's New Yorker was revealed last night, and it's definitely one you should not miss.
Jonah Lehrer is so very close to giving us an on-the-record first-hand account about all that self-plagiarizing, his resignation from The New Yorker, and his penchant for making up Bob Dylan quotes--he just has to finish writing it.
Prepare yourself, people who love words and writing and those symbols we use to designate pauses and emotions and inflections (and such) throughout our prose and occasionally poetry as well. Monday is the annual holiday of National Punctuation Day!
Following the ban of the nipply New Yorker cartoon to the right, Facebook has clarified that its takedown of the New Yorker Cartoon account was a mistake and that the cartoon does not violate its community standards on "Nudity and Sex."
The New Yorker announced an unsurprising purchase on Tuesday evening. The magazine has absorbed the Borowitz Report to be part of a new humor page on their website.
There's an amusing screed from New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris on the magazine's website on the subject of swear words.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
There's a delightful little post on The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog in which author Thomas Beller has his iPhone stolen by kids in New Orleans that reminded us of a delightful little New York Times essay from 2006 in which Thomas Beller dropped his iPod on New York City subway tracks.
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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