The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.
Some of the articles featured in this 84-page July 10 & 17, 2023 edition include:
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN - Jelani Cobb on the affirmative-action ruling; a fifteen-hundred-mile paddle; remembrance of meals past; part-time poulterers; shoes fit for shamans.
LIFE AND LETTERS - Killing Dickens - The inevitability of the English historical novel.
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS - Toy Story - Mattel's movie ambitions go beyond Barbie.
PROFILES - Galaxy Brain - Samuel R. Delany's pioneering science fiction.
FICTION
"The Kitchen God"
"P's Parties"
"Colorin Colorado"
COMING TOGETHER
Night of the Happy Bodies
The Ice-Cream Truck
A Lesson for the Sub
A Family Wedding
Roberta at the Morrison
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE - Do we need to hear another story?
BOOKS
The early works of Tennessee Williams.
Briefly Noted
MUSICAL EVENTS - Stimulating the brain and the senses in San Francisco.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"
"Biosphere"
POEMS
"Creation Story"
"Someone in Paris, France Is Thinking of You"
COVER - "On the Same Page"
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