Jonathan Taylor writes:
Flavorwire marks a moment in time: the first New Yorker cartoon about Lady Gaga, by David Sipress. (h/t a message from Jessica Ferri.)

Jonathan Taylor writes:
At the site of Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Society, you can read Alex Ross’s March 8 lecture, “Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the Classical Concert.”
At the New Yorker site, you can read Ross’s 2008 piece on the subject, “Why So Serious?“.

Jonathan Taylor writes:
At Close Read, Amy Davidson has the last word on the tall crop of Rahm Emanuel tales being told at various firesides:

Would the President’s advisers really take pride in striking a deal to open a new Guantánamo? It’s the sort of bargain a clever tailor in a fairy tale proposes to a bad elf.

Jonathan Taylor writes:
At her website, Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, gives a little backstory on the development of the obviously fun cover by Roz Chast—and also links to a compilation of Masonic references in New Yorker cartoons (as of 2004).

Jonathan Taylor writes:
The Oxford American unleashes Chang, as G.H.W. Bush might say, with its own detailed story on Calvin Trillin’s subject last of week—with a Remnick epigraph on the coincidence. (Via Tyler Cowen.)

Emily Gordon writes:
We are celebrating. We hereby award the Jane Grant to Jane Grant, the Boss Hoss to Harold Ross, the Lei of Herbin to Rea Irvin, the Feast of Yeast to Raoul Fleischmann, and a vat of champagne (we mean Champagne) for the entire New Yorker staff of the present Golden Age.
You’re a natty, brainy 85, New Yorker. If you make the yearly subscription $85 a year, we’ll take it.

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