The New Yorker articles

Recent articles from The New Yorker

Night at the Museum.(Archives, vol. 1: 1963-1972)(Video recording review)
June 8, 2009... It's been thirty years since Neil Young first sang "Hey hey, my my / Rock and roll can never die," and he's certainly done his part to preserve the form, remaining a vital and even controversial artist well into his sixties. But he's also become a trailblazer in the art of the curated career...

Gottino and Wilfie & Nell.(Restaurant review)
June 8, 2009... The other evening at Gottino, Jody Williams's West Village enoteca, as patrons stacked up in the cramped space between the barstools and the wall, the manager got to work: "We'll have seating in the garden in about an hour," he explained. "There's a table inside about to open up, or seats at...

Diverse Opinions.(The Talk of the Town)
June 8, 2009... In making nominations to the Supreme Court, Presidents care about diversity, which is a relatively new term for an idea that is nearly as old as the Court itself. In the early days of the republic, when regional disputes were the foremost conflict of the era, nominees were generally defined...

Panther(s)!(The Talk of the Town)
June 8, 2009... The Palisades panther(s) first appeared on the morning of March 6th, in Snedens Landing, a hamlet on the Hudson, just over the New Jersey line. Jane Bernick glanced out her kitchen window and saw, lying in the grass about twenty yards away, a pair of large black mammals. Assuming that they...

No School.(The Talk of the Town)(swine flu)
June 8, 2009... The borough of Queens is said to be home to people from more countries than any similarly sized place on earth; so it figures that when the world comes down with a sickness the city is going to feel it first in Queens. In the borough's far reaches, past where the subways stop, many schools...