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The New Yorker

Film Review: “The French Dispatch” — A Fantastical Magazine

Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: The French Dispatch, The New Yorker, Tim Jackson, Wes Anderson

Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?

Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast Tagged: amanda gorman, arts, bowery pots, brooklyn rail, danspace, Donald Hall, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Howard, Kyle Ducayan, Literary criticism, on being, pen america, Performance Art, Poems, Poetry, poetry foundation of america, poetry in motion, poetry performance, poetry podcast, poetry project, Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, poetry reading, poetry unbound, poetry underground, poets, poets on instagram, poets' house, Sewanee, slam poetry, st.Mark's, T.S. Eliot, The New Yorker, the paris review, Turtle Point Press, ugly duckling press

Book Review: Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl — Connecting Readers to the World in a New Way

Good essays about art help us learn to see. Wonderful essays about the artists in our lives — which means all the artists through history, because, as Peter Schjeldahl so eloquently puts it, “all art is contemporary” —- help us learn how to live.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Hot Cold Heavy Light: 100 Art Writings, Let’s See, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, Writings on Art From The New Yorker

Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It

It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Anthony Lane, BBC America, Emily Nussbaum, Godless, Harvey Blume, Killing Eve, Netflix, The New Yorker

Cultural Commentary: “The New Yorker” and The Fat Cats — Teaming Up

Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: corporate power, fat cats, The New Yorker

Visual Arts Commentary: “Portraits of Courage” — Critical Misfire

Why do critics like the New Yorker‘s Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: George W. Bush, Iraqi War, Peter Schjeldahl, Profiles of Courage, The New Yorker

Critical Commentary: But Can You Relate?

Fighting for the intellectual integrity and independence of arts reviews means demanding more analysis and less sales talk.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Editorial, Featured Tagged: arts-criticism, book-reviewing, From the Editor's Desk, Ira Glass, negative-reviews, Rebecca Mead, Relatabilty, Relatable, The New Yorker

Book Review: “My Mistake: A Memoir” — Notes from a Reticent Memoirist

There will be readers who appreciate Daniel Menaker’s brevity and lack of emotional engagement, but for me, much of “My Mistake” reads like notes for a memoir.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Menaker, My Mistake: A Memoir, The New Yorker

Literature Commentary: The New Yorker Misses an H.G. Wells Anniversary Worth Celebrating

“For an imaginative boy, the first experience of writing is like a tiger’s first taste of blood.’ — H.G. Wells, “The New Machiavelli,” 1911.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: 100th, Adam Kirsch, anniversary, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, The New Yorker

Book Review: ‘Making Toast’

Although the memoir has been called luminous, wise, humble, piercing, and all sorts of other laudatory adjectives, it is, nevertheless, not an easy book to read because you keep wondering how you would manage in this situation. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt, Ecco Press, 166 pages, $21.00 Reviewed by Roberta Silman At the end of […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Making Toast, memoir, non-fiction, Roberta Silman, Roger Rosenblatt, The New Yorker

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