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Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Artwork
The New Yorker doesn’t simply let go of the previous stuff. Just lately, our copy division retired the hyphen we’d saved in “in-box”...
Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Contact of Nature”
I first encountered Mary McCarthy not via her novels or criticism however via her political reporting. A former editor really helpful that I...
Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop’s “On the Fishhouses”
On August 9, 1947, The New Yorker devoted practically a full web page to one of many nice poems of the 20th century....
Edwidge Danticat on Jamaica Kincaid’s “Woman”
As ladies, we might discover it tough to image our moms—particularly if they're stern Caribbean moms—as something apart from the poised girls they’re...
Ariel Levy on Emily Hahn’s “The Huge Smoke”
“Although I had at all times needed to be an opium addict, I can’t declare that as the rationale I went to China.”...