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I love the New Yorker cartoons and especially the cat ones. This was a decent collection without being earth shattering. Special mention to Australian cartoonist Victoria Roberts who appears here.

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Founded in 1925, The New Yorker is a national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture, and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other…


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A compilation of essays, reviews, fiction and poetry from The New Yorker in the 1940’s
There are some real gems here: John Hershey’s Hiroshima and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” just to name two. The reader gets a real flavor of the country just before, during and just after World War II.

Choice selection of late 1930s and early 1940s New Yorker cartoons by an assortment of its "varsity" artists. Part of the way the magazine constantly sliced and diced and served up its contributions in money-making ways.

The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) (2005)

I LOVED this. It's amazing how familiar the New Yorker "voice" is after 70 years.

Highlights:
-John Hersey's [b:Hiroshima|27323|Hiroshima|John Hersey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327719015s/27323.jpg|1014091]. I loved [b:A Bell for Adano|415412|A Bell for Adano|John Hersey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403185397s/415412.jpg|1798417], and this just cements him for me.
-John Hersey's profile of JFK. Ditto.
-George Orwell's review (of something I can't even remember now). Everything he was saying is still so relevant. I should read more of him.
-All of the WWII coverage, especially of the D-Day landings.

I'm bad and I skipped the poetry section, because poetry.

Nothing much to say here other than this was an enjoyable very quick read! I've had it sitting around for a very long time in my library, and finally decided to pick it up and take 15-20 minutes and read it. No regrets....

Apesar de ter nomes estelares entre os desenhistas nessa edição de 1990 creio que a New Yorker foi melhor provida de cartoons sobre gatos nos últimos 25 anos.

Excellent collection of The New Yorker cartoons about cats and stories about the cartoons. Highly enjoyable for a cast lover.

If you like the New Yorker style of cartoons and you like cats you will love this book. My favourite is on page 8.

Somewhat disappointing. Some funny cartoons, as always, but not as many as I expect from the New Yorker. Too many were just cliche.

Not as good as some other New Yorker collections, but still has some good cartoons.

A fantastic compilation of essays, stories and articles from the New Yorker pages of the 1940's. The writings run the gamut from observations of war time Paris, to essays on films, music and art, and short stories written by some of the greatest authors of the day.
It's a book that encourages dipping in and out, and skipping around, rather than reading without deviation from beginning to end.
It's a marvelous book that immerses the reader into the 1940's. Loved it!

I generally like this book - some of the cartoon seemed a bit pointless, a few them right on the mark. But for the most part, these are a bit a dry, and really, many of them, while having cats in them, aren't really about cats.½

Incredible collection of stories published in the New Yorker between 1950 and 1960, including a work by Roald Dahl that later became Danny, Champion of the World.

Finally, I read The 40s: The Story of a Decade which has made me want to subscribe to The New Yorker so it definitely did its job. It's a collection of pieces from that illustrious publication during the 1940s when it underwent the change from witty, humorist magazine to political, correspondence magazine. From profiles to poetry to politics, The New Yorker broke down barriers and contributed some truly revolutionary writings that left an indelible mark on the history of journalism. I was especially moved by the essay on Hiroshima which focused on a handful of survivors of the atomic bomb. The entire collection was fascinating for its time capsule like quality but it was also a fine sampling of excellent writing. I'd also like to point out that I heard about this book on the New York Public Library's homepage on a blog post entitled "The Blacklist: What is Red Reading?". Turns out James Spader is currently reading this book and it sounded so intriguing that I decided to give it a shot. I'm so glad that I did!

As an avid reader of the New Yorker magazine, I looked forward to reading this collection of pieces from the 1940’s and I was not disappointed. It begins with a fascinating introduction by David Remnick which describes the beginnings of the magazine and how its intent evolved during the years of World War II. The pieces begin with the German invasion of Paris and continue throughout the war and beyond. There is one particularly spectacular piece about John F. Kennedy’s war experience. It is a large book and I have approximately one third left to read, but I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in well written prose. I am currently reading this as an egalley but would recommend a hard copy as it would be a nice book to flip through. I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

interesting to see how taste in short stories has changed. all very short- 4 pages.
a lot of stories about how rotten women are--some by women.½

How to mark this as anything but currently reading, since it will take decades to complete. I bought the mini-hd version and it's well worth the price. To be able to search on authors and topics of articles written decades ago is simply marvelous. Or, just to pick a year and wander through the magazine. I have subscribed to the New Yorker for years and still consider it one of the finest magazines (except for the short term of Tina Brown at the helm when it was almost ruined -- thank goodness for David Remnick.) An astonishing resource. Everything is there, including the cartoons.

This issue of the New Yorker has, on p. 78, an add from Swann Galleries for an April 7, 2008 auction of early printed books and gastronomic literature from the Fillin and Yeah Collection. The ad shows a 1st edition copy of Fisher's first book Serve it Forth. This is the first and only, as far as I know, advertisement for an auction of Fisher books. The copy shown, which was inscribed by Fisher, sold for $700 plus commission and tax (a relatively good deal).

The "Books" section of this issue of The New Yorker is an article by M.F.K. Fisher titled "Four Handfuls Of Agrimony, And As Many Of Scabious". Fisher reviews Herbal, by Joseph Wood Krutch; Herbs for the Medieval Household, compiled by Margaret B. Freeman; Herbs for the Kitchen, by Irma Goodrich Mazza; The Spice Cookbook, by Avanelle Day and Lillie Stuckey; and The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened. pp. 226+

A nice collection of cat-related cartoons from the New Yorker! Reading and looking through this book was a nice way to end the weekend!

A great book, though I must admit that I did not "get" about 10% of the cartoons. The carttons are representative of the era. One cartoon, the one about lynching, comes from the 1920s and can be excused in that it portrays a society that does not exist today.
I do not believe that the other cartoons are as offensive as the review below seemed to indicate. They are mostly more innocent than today's cartoons and definitively "high-brow" enough to elicit a chuckle.
I would say that at least 25% of the cartoons are great, The entire book revolves, obviously, about New York City and all its foibles.

Found this in a Thrift Store for $10 and had to have it.½

Lotsa fun - we could only wish it were so