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When Roz Chast pops up on Zoom to chat, a fan of her work finds her exactly as expected: warm, whimsical, thoughtfully forthcoming, and wryly prone to place almost any [...]

Welcome to the 2023 Fall Preview. Here are 10 nonfiction favorites, representing an array of subjects, arranged by publication date. Let's start with one of my favorite New Yorker writers, [...]

As a kid, I didn't read comic books. No Archie. No Superman or Batman. Not even Classics Illustrated (even though I adored books like The Three Musketeers). I was definitely [...]

An interview with American cartoonist Roz Chast is presented. When asked about what are the things that always make her laugh, she replied that it is sometimes Buster Keaton's comedy, the original British series 'The Office', or sometimes stupid and dumb things. She expresses that she had to make up her way of making cartoons and she doesn't want to imitate male cartoonists.

Here are a few things about My People: we are fatalists, i.e., we tend to expect the worst. If you know anything about our history, you can see why we [...]

Twice in 1993, a New Yorker magazine cover ignited a political-correctness debate. Amateur semioticians ran rampant as they deconstructed a St. Valentine's Afro-Hasidic kiss, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, among [...]

Leo Aloysius Cullum, a fellow-cartoonist here at The New Yorker, died the other week at the age of sixty-eight. He was a master of the traditional gag cartoon and all [...]

Charles Addams was my first cartoon love. His dark yet strangely jolly view of life jumped out at me from the pages of my parents' New Yorkers, and when I [...]

AMATEUR MOM Set Up Play Dates Just Like a Pro! You Too, Can bake Cookies! Who's Afraid of the P.T.A.? Step-by-Step Makeover guide: Look Like a Real Mom in 30 […]

Suede jacket for sale in shop in lobby of Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Was that the second Emerald Pool or the third? Hiking in Zion Natinal Park, Utah. Emptiness, [...]

Heavenly whatever, On the off chance that you're there: To the powers that might or might not be: Sorry in advance for being so bad at believing, but ROZ CHAST/THE [...]

The Pinocchio Awards With skepticism afoot and activism in full gear, the new rallying cry is 'Marketer, heal thyself.' More than half of all consumers describe the way American business [...]