the new yorker

Jelani Cobb is the dean of Columbia University’s school of journalism and a staff writer for “The New Yorker.” “When people ask what I think is the foundational institution of democracy, I always say: the public library.” Cobb tells us about David Levering Lewis and the Queens Public Library.

Author, writer and copy editor for “The New Yorker” Mary Norris goes into depth about the wine-dark sea and about her thing, a tin pitcher. A repeat broadcast from September 23, 2022.

Veteran New Yorker staff writer Tony Hiss’ new book, "Rescuing the Planet," is out today. The book is an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's…

Roz Chast has loved to draw cartoons since she was a child growing up in Brooklyn and began selling cartoons to the New Yorker as soon as she submitted…

Jane Mayer has added another award to her distinguished journalism career. The Museum of Political Corruption in Albany has just named the longtime “New…

Liza Donnelly is a cartoonist and writer with The New Yorker Magazine, and resident cartoonist at CBS News. Her work has been exhibited around the world.…

Peter Steiner has been a cartoonist for over thirty years. He created the cartoon "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog," the most reproduced cartoon…

WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Ken Lovett, Albany Bureau Chief for The New York Daily News, about the resignation of state Attorney General Eric…

Roz Chast has published more than a thousand cartoons in The New Yorker since 1978. Her frantic and disheveled characters have become icons of American…

Bob Mankoff, cartoonist and influential cartoon editor for "The New Yorker," submitted more than 500 of his own cartoons to that publication before…