Emdashes. The New Yorker between the lines
Best of Emdashes: Hit Parade
Weekly: Pick of the Issue
Bimonthly: Ask the Librarians
Submit a question for the next column.
Frequently:
Headline Shooter
Seal Barks
Eustace Google
Looked Into
Experience Gopnik and McLemee Virtually, This Saturday
Filed under: Pick of the Issue Tagged: Adam Gopnik, Scott McLemee
Martin Schneider writes:
This, from the National Book Critics Circle, made its way to my in-box:
How reviewers are adapting to the new digital order has been one of the burning themes among NBCC members for the past year. NBCC board member Scott McLemee sends along notice of his own intervention of sorts: On Saturday, from 5 to 7 PM EST, he'll be hosting an on-line book salon about Adam Gopnik's Angels and Ages at Firedoglake.com. The transcripts of previous FDL salons, which have featured contributors ranging from Thomas Ricks to Rick Perlstein are here.
How intriguing! I'm sure that'll be terrific.
(continued)
Best of the 03.23.09 Issue: Tantrum
Filed under: Pick of the Issue Tagged: Anna Politkovskaya, Barry Blitt, Jeffrey Toobin, John McPhee, Keith Gessen, Roland Burris, Rush Limbaugh
Martin Schneider writes:
Barry Blitt's vision of eight wailing Limbaughs was on the cover. Features included Jeffrey Toobin's look at Roland Burris, Keith Gessen's report on the Politkovskaya murder trial, and John McPhee's article on lacrosse.
Best of the 03.16.09 Issue: You Go, Girl
Filed under: Pick of the Issue Tagged: Alber Elbaz, Ariel Levy, Bill Cunningham, Floc'h, Judith Thurman, Lauren Collins, Michelle Obama, Yasmina Reza
Martin Schneider writes:
The Style Issue! Floc'h's vision of multiple Michelle Obamas on the catwalk was on the cover. Features included Lauren Collins's report on Bill Cunningham, Judith Thurman's article on Yasmina Reza, and Ariel Levy's look at Alber Elbaz.
Best of the 03.09.09 Issue: Masters of the Universe
Filed under: Pick of the Issue Tagged: Bob Staake, D.T. Max, David Foster Wallace, Ian Parker, Sasha Frere-Jones
Martin Schneider writes:
Bob Staake's takedown of Wall Street CEOs was on the cover. Features included Ian Parker's report on Iceland's economic collapse, D.T. Max's look at the life of David Foster Wallace, and Sasha Frere-Jones's appreciation of Lily Allen.
(continued)
Best of the 03.02.09 Issue: Hive Mind
Filed under: Pick of the Issue Tagged: Ivan Brunetti, Natalie Dessay, Rahm Emanuel, Rebecca Mead, Ryan Lizza, Steve Koll
Martin Schneider writes:
Ivan Brunetti's adorable presentation of cubicle life was on the cover. Features included Ryan Lizza's report on Rahm Emanuel, Rebecca Mead's Profile on soprano Natalie Dessay, and Steve Koll's investigation of tensions between Pakistan and India.
Who we?
Emdashes, founded in 2004 by Emily Gordon, is a place where keen and dedicated readers of The New Yorker, past and present, can find related news and commentary: about people, subjects, and ideas within the magazine, and events and conversations outside its pages. Learn more about us and our contributors.
We welcome tips, questions, and comments about The New Yorker past and present, plus related events, links, typeface sightings, &c. To contact the magazine or send a submission, click here.
No fear: Everything you say or send is off the record unless we ask for your permission to use it.
This site is neither owned nor operated by The New Yorker magazine or Condé Nast Publications.
Some writing by Emily Gordon
- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: The King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does The New Republic's recent redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Proposal: A more attractive MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
Tell me more
They say that dashes “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like em dashes—emphasizes what’s between: in particular, between the lines, covers, and issues of a magazine close to my heart.
Primary sources
The New Yorker
Events listed by the magazine
Web resources: New Yorker writers and artists
Books, Organizations, &c.
Founded and micromanaged by Emily Gordon, edited by Martin Schneider, designed by House of Pretty, and illustrated by Inkleaf. Additional drawings by Carolita Johnson. Kissable pencil girl by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
The Rossosphere
- Resistance Is Fertile
- Mick Stevens: I Really Should Be Drawing
- Cartoonist Michael Maslin's homepage
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- Sasha Frere-Jones
- Matthew Diffee's HuffPo blog
- The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s
- The essential Jane Grant
- Paul Noth's Pale Force
- The New York Public Library records
- New Yorker Comment
- Chiasmus in The New Yorker
- Wikipedia: The New Yorker
- New Yorker database
- The New Orcer
- Silence of the City
- Between the Squibs
- Blog About Town
- Newyorkette
- New Yorker Anti-Caption Contest
- The New Yorker Forums
- I Hate the New Yorker
- Ben Yagoda's homepage
- Access My Library
- New Yorker haiku
- Modern Spectator
- Map: Caption Contest Winners
- Technorati: New Yorker
- Link to suggest? Email it!