Steve Bannon Inexplicably Invited to Open His Mouth Hole at the New Yorker Festival
Steve Bannon, a sack of rotting beans stuffed inside some stitched-together skin, has been invited to speak at the upcoming New Yorker Festival.
Your Semi-Regular Reminder That Mike Pence Is Fucking Scary
When a miserable, dihydroxyacetone-stained businessman sits in the Oval Office, it’s easy to tell yourself that his hypothetical untimely exit would be a net positive. Unfortunately, the incomparable Jane Mayer has a new feature on Vice President Mike Pence in the New Yorker reminding us that we are completely screwed …
Even the Dumbest Us Weekly Headlines Look Great In New Yorker Font
Today the Jezebel chat room briefly derailed from its more pressing conversations about breaking news and cultural events, as it is wont to do, with a chat about the importance and impact of certain fonts—particularly the unconscious assumption that copy written in serif fonts is more important (read: newsworthy) than…
Enquirer CEO and Trump Ally David Pecker Is Interested in Buying Time, Inc.
In addition to Breitbart, Drudge Report, InfoWars and Fox & Friends, the president has an ally in David Pecker, the CEO of American Media, Inc., which owns the National Enquirer, the Star, the Globe, the Examiner, OK!, RadarOnline, and, as of a recent and controversial acquisition, Us Weekly, which has quickly joined…
All the Men to Blame for Donald Trump
At the start of the Republican National Convention—the ceremony in which Republican leadership will officially declare Donald Trump, the contents of a dumpster behind a Roll N Roaster, as their nominee—men are beginning to feeling introspective about their complicity in Trump’s rise.
After Much Criticism, Gay Talese Renounces His Forthcoming Book The Voyeur's Motel
In April 2016, the New Yorker published an extraordinary tale of male entitlement. Literary journalist Gay Talese told the story of how self-proclaimed amateur sex researcher and professional peeping tom Gerald Foos had purchased the Manor House motel in Aurora, Colorado and jerry-rigged a viewing deck in order to spy…
Kate Middleton Joins the Long, Goofy, Controversial Line of Celebrity Guest Editors
Today, Kate Middleton is “guest-editing” HuffPo UK. She’s not the first and God knows she won’t be the last celebrity to turn her hand to gratis editorial work.
Making a Murderer and the Flawed, Unregulated 'Court of Last Resort'
Journalism and the courts are, ideally, protected against bias by a system of checks and balances. That wasn’t necessarily the case for the filmmakers behind Making a Murderer.
Dejah Joyner, 12, Killed In Her Living Room By Stray Bullet
A 12-year-old girl on Long Island has died after being struck in the head by a stray bullet. Dejah Joyner was standing in the living room of her Hempstead home Friday evening when the bullet came through the window, fired from the street. The gunman has not been located.
Did a Yale MFA Jack Two Feminists' Work & End Up in The New Yorker?
Arabelle Sicardi is a visionary young queer feminist, fashion and make-up expert, and writer (and occasional Jezebel contributor). She frequently collaborates with Tayler Smith, an equally visionary young photographer. When they saw that a photo project they’d worked on featured prominently—without credit—in an issue…
Samantha Power, Goddess of the U.N.
Samantha Power, who last year became the youngest ever U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the age of 42, is the subject of a lengthy profile by Evan Osnos in this week's issue of The New Yorker.
An excerpt of Lena Dunham's new book is available at the New Yorker; in it, she discusses the various therapists she had as a child and then teenager, one of whom eventually led her to her best friend Audrey Gelman.
Jennifer Weiner, I Love You But You're Smothering Me
When I was an insecure college freshman, Good in Bed was a godsend. The protagonist was wickedly funny, even as she voiced my fears about the way my weight would limit my future, that nobody would ever love me, nobody interesting would ever hire me. It was a reminder to buck up, kid, it'll be fine.
How Elizabeth Smart Became More Than An Abduction Victim
Margaret Talbot's piece in the New Yorker this week might be called "The Extraordinary Resilience of Elizabeth Smart" but a better title might be "How Elizabeth Smart Did the Impossible." The piece explores how Smart managed to get through her abduction and become that much more than an abduction victim forever…
The New Yorker Held a Coachella GIF Party and Didn’t Invite You
The New Yorker dispatched instagramming scribe Nathaniel Wood to Coachella last weekend, and, in an effort to make you think that (paraphrasing Timothy Fenwick, Jr.) there’s something going on in this country that you just don’t know about, posted a bunch of hyperactive GIFs featuring gleeful Coachella-goers, seesaws,…
The New Yorker Review of Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A Biography Contains Unexpectedly Delightful Passage
The Beauty Myth author and feminist Naomi Wolf's Vagina dropped this year (sorry—just to be clear, it's her new book Vagina: A Biography), and makes a variety of claims about "the conscious vagina," a concept that suggests—among other semi-terrifying things—that sexually-satisfied vaginas are what gives women their…
The New Yorker is Serial Tweeting Jennifer Egan's New Short Story
Tonight, the New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter account (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan's new story "Black Box." The entire story, which will also appear in the magazine's Science Fiction Issue next Monday, will be tweeted over the next ten evenings, from 8 to 9 P.M. E.T.
Not Even Amy Poehler Can Look Away From Hoarders
Despite much hand-wringing about the state of women and television, one person doesn't seem too worried—and she should know better than almost anybody. Here's what Amy Poehler had to say about television's depiction of women in an interview with Ariel Levy during this week's New Yorker Festival:
Facebook's Top Female Exec & "Girl Questions"
After a talk Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave at Harvard Business School, she saw a difference between the women and the men. The men asked about business; the women asked "girl questions."
Pioneer Woman Makes Blogging Look Like Paradise
She hasn't quite got the old-media fame of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, but Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond is making headlines — and cash. What makes her life on the ranch so popular with readers?
