Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker from the age of 23 who extended the magazine’s franchise of rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complicated and quintessentially American characters, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 75. The cause of death, in a hospital, was cancer of the salivary gland, his son…
Outside, the latest news was coursing through the stifling air that heralded a sweltering Washington summer, pinging countless phones with updates. Thousands were praying on the National Mall. The Taiwanese president was asking for more weapons. President Trump was threatening Iran. But none of that had yet made it inside the newspapers and magazines overflowing…
In a never publicly released story by Edith Wharton, a dinner party goes on in a French chateau during the summer of 1918 as World War I nears its end and while the booms of guns can be heard in the distance. “The Men Who Saved the World,” a previously unreleased fictional short story by…
Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the State of Colorado alleging that the State unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected standard capacity firearm magazines. This law unconstitutionally infringes on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes. “Colorado’s ban on certain magazines is political virtue signaling at…
In the juiciest speech in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Miranda Priestly, the frosty-haired, frosty-souled Runway magazine editrix played by Meryl Streep (in a performance that should have won her the Oscar), looks over Andy (Anne Hathaway), her dressed-down second assistant, and dresses her down all the more by explaining that Andy may think she has…
About 150 people gathered in Manhattan on a recent evening for the debut of Steak Zine, a special issue of the food-focused literary journal Cake Zine. The cover, designed to resemble a perfectly marbled cut of beef, was red meat for the people in the crowd, who had paid $20 apiece to pack into Funny…
