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Kate Julian Jumps to The Atlantic

Former New Yorker managing editor Kate Julian (who most recently ran Slate's Double X) has been named a senior editor at The Atlantic. She will oversee the magazine's "Dispatches" section and edit features. Oh and her office is next to something called the Roanoke Room. What else do you need to know? Read More

Drag Queens and Gay Marriage Featured in R. Crumb’s Axed ‘New Yorker’ Cover

Robert Crumb, the alt-comic writer with a piggyback fetish, has always been ahead of his time. That's what made his comics--usually featuring giant Amazonian women with humungous thighs as a chronic masturbatory fantasy-- so transgressive to begin with.

But for all his former subversiveness, Mr. Crumb is pretty mainstream nowadays. Maybe not New Yorker mainstream though: Vice magazine unearthed a 2009 drawing from the cartoonist that was rejected by David Remnick's magazine. Though an answer was never given on why the cover wasn't run, Mr. Crumb suspects it was because the New Yorker was too afraid of offending people with the image of a (possible?) drag queen and a twee person of unidentifiable sex trying talking to a sweating official from the marriage license bureau, with a sign pointing to a "Genders Inspection" office next to his window.

Below, a high res image of the cartoon, which was discovered at the Venice Biennale in June.
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John Swansburg Leaves the New Yorker After Only 2 Months, Returns to Slate

Early this morning, Slate editor-in-chief and chairman Jacob Weisberg tweeted that former colleague and culture editor John Swansburg was "back!" A New Yorker spokesman confirmed that Mr. Swansburg's last day was Friday Oct. 28 and that he was returning to Slate--though we're not sure as what yet. The Observer is still waiting to hear back Read More

Harold Ross’ Party House for Sale

Harold Ross was known as one of the best, if most obsessive, editors in the world. He founded The New Yorker, ("the book," as he called it) and ran a tight ship as general editor of the publication from its inception until he died in 1951. When he got home, however, Mr. Ross liked to live loose.

The Hells Kitchen townhouse at 412 West 47th Street, which was for decades home to the storied editor, has just hit the market, and it has been attracting a slew of literary enthusiasts. "I've been impressed at just how some people are just riveted by the history," Massey Knakal broker Chris Brodhead told The Observer.

"They don’t always have a lot of money," he added.

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Latest New Yorker Cartoon Fairly Accurate of Attempt To Distill All Blogs Into Three Categories

Headline aside, this needs little context: Read More

McQueen, Bernard-Henri and the Nazis: Life of Daphne Guinness Gets New Yorker Treatment

Did you wake up today with Fashion Week withdrawal? Craving a runway in New York, and unable to hop a flight to London? Remnick & Co. have you covered: The New Yorker's style issue hits stands today, and there's plenty of hemming to fill the pages. Susan Orlean has a nice snapshot of happy-go-lucky Read More

That’s Not My Trick, Michael: New Yorker Fest to Actually Reunite Arrested Development Cast

Nancy Franklin may be taking a sabbatical from her post as television critic for The New Yorker, but it looks like she's got one more small-screen magic trick up her sleeve before she goes. In a surprise addition to the magazine's annual festival, Ms. Franklin will moderate a panel with the entire cast Read More

First Look: Writer-Celebrity Pairings for 2011 New Yorker Festival

The 2011 New Yorker Festival will take place in the city between Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, and The Observer obtained a copy of the lineup. That means we get to see the pairing-up of New Yorker writers and their celebrity counterparts. They did a crack job this year! Here it is, accompanied by some Read More

Supreme Loves The New Yorker, Who Loves Odd Future, Who Loves Supreme

It appears New York skate clothier Supreme found inspiration for their Tilley was on the cover of the first issue of the New Yorker in 1925 and continued to show up in humor pieces, as a kind of avatar for the magazine's staff. He's graced the cover of every anniversary issue since then, in one Read More

The New Yorker Releases Its First E-Book, ‘After 9/11′

Following a trend established by The New York Times, Vanity Fair and others, The New Yorker has published its first standalone e-book. Read More

New Yorker Gay Marriage Cover Update: There Is a New Yorker Gay Marriage Cover

We recently asked David Remnick, in a live chat, whether he'd considered running a gay-marriage-themed New Yorker cover after the state government's decision in favor of marriage equality. "I would not be surprised if there was one in time for the first wave of weddings," he told us, though the decision came down Read More

Larry David Shouts, Murmurs

Want to read Larry David's first-ever Shouts and Murmurs? Of course you do. It's ostensibly about golf, which is something everybody hates, but is more about Larry David, something everybody loves. "I felt liberated, not unlike the way I felt when my wife left me, except this time I didn’t take up skipping." [The New Yorker]

You May Find Yourself in an Ambassador’s Back Yard!

Outside the French ambassador’s home the people of Washington, D.C., mobbed John Legend as if the city had never before seen a star. David Arquette walked out of the gates and met bunches of fans clutching outdated head shots and fresh sharpies. David Byrne emerged, and a man broke into a sprint, holding in his Read More

Why Did The New Yorker Break ‘Spider-Man’ Embargo?

Another week brings more bad news for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark! After the initial wave of bad reviews, led by the New York Times's Ben Brantley, a new review has dropped today by The New Yorker's John Lahr. The magazine's review, which broke the oft-broken embargo for the not-yet-opened musical, was Read More

Gladwell Book Generator Reaches the Tipping Point

The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator, a website which launched yesterday, is catching on faster than those trendy shoes from The Tipping Point. The site allows readers to refresh and see a new, pastel-on-white cover of a book on scientific ideas. Each could fit easily alongside Gladwell's back catalog, but for an absurdist twist. One Read More