The cartoons of The New Yorker have entertained the magazine's readers for nearly a century. A roster of extraordinary artists continues to create indelible images that vary in style and tone, whether whimsical, provocative, serene, or laugh-out-loud funny. The Cartoons from The New Yorker 2019 Wall[...]
If you like inexpensive restaurants where the main course is Beluga caviar, radio stations that play nothing but your favorite hits, and airlines that automatically upgrade you to first class and never lose your luggage, forget it. There's no such thing. But here's a dream that actually comes true: [...]
From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).
A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine s founding editor, Harold Ross, a[...]
Part of a series of manuals for car or motor cycle owners, the Haynes Automotive Repair manuals provide i nformation on routine maintenance and repair, with all tasks described & photographed in a step-by-step sequence. '[...]
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More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of "New Yorker" cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of them!
In 2005, this was more than just a book - it was a bona fide art publishing event. And now it is coming in paperback! It is the definitive and largest-ever collection of cartoons which have appeared in "New Yorker" magazine since the 1920s: the best from every decade, plus decade-by-decade essays by[...]
A collection of essays about some of the modern world's most provocative cultural icons is a compendium of celebrity profiles, anecdotes, and observations about such figures as Dame Edna, Cole Porter, and Laurence Fishburne. By the Tony Award-winning writer of "Elaine Stritch at Liberty."[...]
Thanks to a successful interview with a painfully shy E. B. White, a beautiful nineteen-year-old hazel-eyed Midwesterner landed a job as receptionist at "The New Yorker." There she stayed for two decades, becoming the general office factotum--watching and registering the comings and goings, marriage[...]
To be a staff writer at "The New Yorker" during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in p[...]
The incredible, wild life of Peter Arno, the fabled cartoonist whose racy satire and bold visuals became the unforgiving mirror of his times and the foundation of the New Yorker cartoon. In the summer of 1925, The New Yorker was struggling to survive its first year in print. They took a chance on a [...]
Over the past two years, Wade Guyton (born 1972) has created a compelling new series of artworks, documented in all their breadth and complexity in Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier.Instead of the minimal, repeated letters that characterize his best-known work, Guyton's new paintings feature a div[...]