Ronald Searle, the British cartoonist and caricaturist whose outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor, died on Friday in Draguignan, in southeastern France, where he lived. He was 91. His family said in a statement that he had died in his sleep...
Every year, the Sidney Awards, named for the renowned philosopher Sidney Hook, go out to some of the best magazine essays of the year. Anybody interested in being a better person will click the links to these essays, and read attentively. The first winner is Peter Hessler's New Yorker article, ''Dr. Don: The life of a small-town druggist.'' It is a...
PAULINE KAEL A Life in the Dark By Brian Kellow 417 pp. Viking. $27.95. THE AGE OF MOVIES Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited by Sanford Schwartz 828 pp. The Library of America. $40. In his introduction to ''The Age of Movies,'' the Library of America anthology canonizing Pauline Kael, Sanford Schwartz writes that she was ''undoubtedly the...
The New Yorker er et amerikansk tidsskrift med reportager, anmeldelser, essays, satire og fiktion, der er udgivet siden 17. februar 1925. Tidsskriftet udkommer 47 gange årligt i et oplag på 1,062 mio.
Selv om dets hovedfokus er på New York City og byens kulturelle liv, har The New Yorker mange læsere udenfor såvel New York og USA. Bladet er kendt for sin gode journalistik og kulturkommentarer samt sine satariske tegneserier. Blandt de portrætterede her er Barack Obama, der i juli 2008 blev afbilledet på forsiden som muslimsk fundamentalist.
I 2005 blev samtlige udgaver af The New Yorker udgivet på en dvd, som i alt rummer omkring en halv mio. sider.
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