85 cartoons
85 cartoons
"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque'. "The New Yorker" has also of[...]
Cats again? You can never have too many . . .
Drawn from the hundreds of cartoons published in The New Yorker in the seven years since The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons--as well as from fabulous older cats--this new collection is as hilarious and irresistible as the first.
The cartoo[...]
New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take par[...]
More than a hundred "New Yorker" cartoons spanning eight decades capture the imagination and present the city as a melting pot of cultures, ideas and emotions.[...]
Fit in to the 'City That Never Sleeps' like a real New Yorker and tour as if you lived there! Looking for a place to have dinner with friends? Manhattan sites to enjoy the sunset while sipping a cocktail? Top spots to party? Or good addresses for a romantic one-to-one? In New Yorker's New York, K[...]
Collects essays by the author that have appeared in the famous magazine, dealing with such issues as nature, Thoreau, liberty, Maine, body and mind, science, business, and academic life[...]
The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for an[...]
This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick. The is the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, [...]
I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc. with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at "The New[...]
This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary" New Yorker" profile writer author of "Joe Gould s Secret" and "Up in the Old Hotel" and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history s greatest disappearing acts.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was [...]
Anthony Lane on "Con Air"
Advance word on "Con Air" said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in "Con Air" are a[...]
Suitable for cat lovers of every persuasion, this anthology offers long-form essays, short humour pieces, poems, fiction, and cartoons.[...]
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell for dog lovers, from the greatest magazine in the world, an irresistible anthology of long-form essays, short humour pieces, poems, fiction, and cartoons. Nobody but "The New Yorker" could assemble such an extraordinary compendium on the subject of man's best friend, and[...]
The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli statehood, Casablanca and Duke Ellington, smallpox and skyscrapers, FDR and Le Corbusier, zoot suits and Christian Dior. It was also the decade the New Yorker came of age. This book tells this history.[...]
The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and "I Like Ike." But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. In this volume, classic works of reportage and fiction are complemented by new contribut[...]
The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society - from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. This volume includes historic pieces from the magazine's pages that capture the [...]
This multi-volume, state-of-the-art encyclopedia discusses all preclinical, clinical, toxicological, regulatory and marketing perspectives of drug metabolism and interactions. Methods and detailed protocols describing how to perform studies of metabolism and drug interactions are presented in one of[...]
Available for the first time to "The New Yorker"'s one million-plus readers: a volume dedicated to the individual careers of the magazine's cartoon superstars. Widely considered to be the pantheon of single-panel cartooning, "The New Yorker" cartoonists' styles are richly varied, and their personal [...]
Here is a cornucopia of 104 dead-on drawings and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists, including Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Ed Koren, J.B. Handelsman, Jack Ziegler, and Victoria Roberts. In the bestsellin[...]
Arno, Steig, Addams, Shanahan, Leo Cullum, and other distinguished cartoonists present a zany look at the medical profession, in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker. 40,000 first printing.[...]