—Mike Huckabee

The 2008 Republican candidate discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an email message to the New Yorker's Ariel Levy. [New Yorker]

The 2008 Republican candidate discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an email message to the New Yorker's Ariel Levy. [New Yorker]

[New York, April 26. Image via Getty]
Call it a policy charm offensive or the fruit of a long-suppressed desire to tell the world how much he resembles Lyle Lovett: Timothy Geithner is talking to Vogue, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Let's compare and contrast!
Enjoying Jersey Shore "hinges not on our ability to identify with them but on our ability to distinguish ourselves from them... as though we were anthropologists secretly observing a new tribe through a break in the trees." [The New Yorker]
As a woman with influence in a town that considers itself "ballsy," Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke gets a lot of nasty comments about her anatomy. But she can more than dish them out.
Fashion editor Staci Sturrock frequently felt the sting of Anna Wintour's sharp tongue — her reminiscences have us wondering what Wintour's ice-queen image would be like if she edited a Serious Publication.
The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones brings up an interesting point regarding the recording artist known as Lady GaGa: The Question Of Endurance.
Before there was the Sartorialist, before there was Garance Doré, before Tommy Ton and the Face Hunter, way back before anyone thought to put the words "street" and "style" together, there was Bill Cunningham.
D.T. Max has a heart-wrenching piece about David Foster Wallace in this week's New Yorker, including a description of his unfinished novel and new insight from friends and loved ones about his life and death.
[New York, February 26. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
Remember the horror of that almost-unrecognizable atrocity at left? Turns out we can blame Pascal Dangin for that. Dangin, you see, is what writer Lauren Collins, in this week's issue of the New Yorker, calls "the premier retoucher of fashion photographs", a onetime hairdresser who so believes in reincarnation…
Another week, another Friday Crappy Hour in which the lesser-known Crappyist Megan (of Glamocracy) is forced to beg for someone to write it with her so that she can avoid talking to herself online like she does in real life. Luckily, Spencer Ackerman (of the Washington Independent and the newly-launched Attackerman)…
When it comes to best-selling covers, the weeklies win with fatalities and flesh, reports the New York Post. Aside from special issues, like "Sexiest Man Alive," People magazine's best-selling issue in 2007 dealt with the apparent suicide attempt of Owen Wilson. So far, their best selling issue of 2008 was the…