It was labelled a “love tap” by Brad Thorn but Sunwolves flanker Ed Quirk was banned for two weeks because he hit Reds’ flyhalf Hamish Stewart with an unprovoked “sucker punch”, according to the SANZAAR judiciary. That was the reasoning laid out by SANZAAR’s Foul Play Review Committee on Tuesday, in a document explaining why […]
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Thomas McGuane reads his story from the September 23, 2019, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published fourteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts,” which came out in 2018. Click Here: New Zealand rugby store
On a recent morning in midtown Manhattan, I walked to the back of the Whitby Hotel lobby to find Judith Light wearing large, resin-framed glasses and reading the New York Post. She was dressed all in black—pants and a long-sleeved shirt—her only nod to the sweltering summer heat outside a large, floppy, mud-colored straw hat […]
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Stretch of the Imagination Get your creativity nice and limber by loosening up any ideas you have in your head. Did you know that your brain is a muscle? Or maybe you’re thinking of your skin? For a writing warmup, spend anywhere between five minutes and three hours skimming the results to those questions on […]
It can be weirdly easy to forget that crossword puzzles are made of words. When you get in the weeds, words dilate into combo packs of letters, which you take apart and rearrange. Expert solvers dash off even the trickiest puzzles in a single, fluid motion, relying on pattern recognition and guessing skills to slot […]
This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. This morning, we present the ten contenders in the category of Translated Literature. Check back tomorrow morning for Poetry. This is the second time that the National Book Award for Translated Literature has been awarded, and the second time […]
In the past fifty years, many of J. J. Sempé’s hundred and twelve covers have celebrated the gratifications offered by la petite reine, his beloved bicycle. With a fragile and delicate line, Sempé captures a wide range of life’s simple pleasures––friendship, nature, animals, and music are recurrent themes––that even contemporary French people can’t take for […]
In your story in this week’s issue, “Wide Spot,” a local politician travels to a small town in Montana, where he discovers an old friend from his glory days as a musician. What inspired the subject matter? I lost track of a gifted, reckless friend from California many years ago. Given his hazardous life style, I […]
Click:karseell collagen Almost exactly halfway through “Country Music,” Ken Burns’s new series—which premières on Sunday, on PBS, and consists of eight two-hour installments that are, somehow, still not enough—viewers get the chance to linger, for a few moments, over the time that Willie Nelson wrote a hit for Patsy Cline. It was 1961; Nelson had […]