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Do you want to win the lottery???

Before you answer, let me tell you why I ask. This morning, I was thinking about a short story I read about a million years ago. It's called "The Lottery" and written by Shirley Jackson. It was...

Gawker Underminer: Deviants And "Deviants" At The 'New Yorker' Festival

In this occasional column, one of the authors of The Underminer or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life refracts the news of the day through a bile-green lens. This week: the New Yorker...

The Riches: The Backlash Begins Against Rich People 'New Yorker' Profiles

Old-school blogger Jason Kottke only got to the third paragraph of this week's New Yorker profile of Donatella Versace (which, ridiculously, is not online). This was what stopped him: "The trouble...

They Get Letters: 'New Yorker' Subject Responds

Forget about the ludicrously inane letters that get printed (or written for) magazines like Interview; this week's New Yorker has one of the most amazing pieces of mail we've ever read. It's equally...

No Kidding: Shocker: The 'New Yorker' Festival Is Smug And Self-Congratulatory

The Village Voice takes aim at the New Yorker Festival, calling it "the Live Earth of the mind--minus the whole giving-the-proceeds-to-worthy-causes bit. Like Live Earth, the brand infuses the event;...

Cartooning: This Faux 'New Yorker' Cartoon Was Drawn On 'New York' Company Time

New York mag contributing editor Michael Idov sends us this cartoon, telling us it's "quite likely the worst thing I've done in my life." Oh, c'mon! We're sure that's not the case!

Cartooning: This Faux 'New Yorker' Cartoon Is In The 'Wall Street Journal'

Now we understand why the well of faux New Yorker cartoon submissions have dried up: you all are sending them to the Wall Street Journal instead of us. So sad!

Cartooning: This Faux 'New Yorker' Cartoon Is About If Frankenstein Lived In Nantucket

Actually, we have no idea what this cartoon is about. Maybe it's about perception and the impossibility of a universal objective reality? Why does Frankenstein wear sockless loafers and tie a...

Cartooning: This Faux New Yorker Cartoon Was Born In Arizona, But It Moved To Babylonia

If the perspective was a tiny bit better this could be in the actual New Yorker, because it's sort of an unfunny old people joke. Do you have an illustrated unfunny old people joke? Send it to...

Cartooning: This Faux 'New Yorker' Cartoon Is A Remix

An entrant writes, "Thanks to the Canucks for their art (and I guess for their bad copy)." The Canucks, we're sure, are all, "You're welcome, eh!" Please send better and more original cartoons to...

Shattered Ass: 'New Republic' Full Of Pugnacity, Mendacity

Leonine New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier comments on the New Yorker in the wake of that publication's hiring of TNR book critic James Wood: "It would be hard to comment on the difference...