Nearly new, slightly thumbed. Cover illustration by Kenton Nelson shows a muscular young man at the peak of a swing on the high bar, with clouds, sky and circus tent in the background. Articles include essays about the age of dinosaurs, psychiatric medications and indoor air pollution. Short story "Lulul" by Te-Ping Chen. Review of a Henry Louis Gate book "Stony the Road," about the end of Reconstruction. View More...
Likght wear, some repling, subscription label on lower front cover. "Jury of His Peers" shows Vladimiir Putin ice skating as part of Winter Olympics. Articlkes include Kern Auletta piece on rise of Netflix; Donald Antrim short short "The Emerald Light in the Air;" articlle on a controversial abortion clinic operator; Waldorf schools in China; tavel piece on traveling by freighter; roundup on experimental opera in NY. Vol. LXXXIX, No. 47. View More...
Lightly thumbed. Cover drawn by Kadir Nelson shows Minneapolis police victim George Floyd as the main figure in a collage honoring Black people who suffered from US racism. Contents include articles about unrest in Minneapolis, Philadelphia and "Riot Report," a survey of racial disturbances -- past and present. View More...
85 pp. "Ready for a Fight" cover illustration by Barry Blitt shows Hillary Clinton as a smiling but bruised boxer, waiting for the next round. She is featured in the Talk of the Town's essay on the significance of a woman president for America. Important item for collections of Clintonia. Other articles include "The Case for Free Money;" "Occupied Territory" re divisions within the Republican party as it confronts Donald Trump; profile of reality TV producer Sarah Shapiro; profile of jailhouse lawer Derrick Hamilton; an overview of microbiology; and a Karen Russell short story, :The Bog Girl."... View More...
83 pp. Corner creases, moderate wear. Cover art "Great Expectations," a bicyclist and dog pedal their way with presents and a bouquet. Contents: "A Risky Proposal," by Margaret Talbot, outlines what's at stake in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger federal lawsuit seeking to legalize gay marriage nationally. She touches on related lawsuits outside the California jurisdiction. A short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle, "A Death in Kitchawank;" Malcolm Gladwell writes about entrepreneurship as a mission aimed at risk-avoidance rather than risk-taking; Calvin Tomkins explores the performance art of William K... View More...
A packet of 21 back issues of the New Yorker, all with covers showing Donald Trump, mostly mocking him. Some are thumbed but lightly read. Address labels on lower corners. Most are the work of illustrator Barry Blitt, except as noted below in the list. July 27, 2015, Trump does bellly flop dive; Feb. 1, 2016 -- Five iconic presidents watch a Trump telecast; May 23, 2016 -- Magician Trump saws a GOP elephant in half; Aug. 22, 2016 - Trump with rain-soaked hair; Oct. 10, 2016 - Trump as Miss Congeniality beauty contestant; Oct. 31, 2016 - Trump taking oath of office with Putin holding the Bible;... View More...
Lot of 22 assorted New Yorker issues from 2016 through 2021, all showing everyday African-Americans, many of them families at the beach or in summertime street scenes.. In good to very good condition, light wear. Artists represented include Diana Ejaita, Malika Fave. Nina Chanel Abney, Kadir Nelson, Owen Smith, Mark Ulriksen, Tomer Hanuka, Loveis Wise, Anthony Lane, Jorge Colombo. Peelable subscription labels on most. View More...
Three used New Yorker issues from the fall 2012 presidential campaign, each with a Barry Blitt cover design should Republican candidate Mitt Romney. They include Sept. 3 "Bromance" (Romney trying to befriend all conservative ideologies); Oct. 29 "One on One" (Romney's clearcut win in a debate with Obama) Oct 29/Nov. 2 combined issue "Skin Deep" (using a Norman Rockwell illustration to mock Romney's flip-flopping on issues. Two covers have slight corner creases; subscription labels on lower left corners. View More...
Light corner crease, subscription label glue on lower left corner of cover. Brian Stauffer's cover illustration "Under Control" shows President Trump wearing a surgical mask as a blindfold. Articles include: Brief interview with Columbia University epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin; a tour of L.A. haunts where German ex-pat novelists once lived; detailed 11-page profile of Trump's campaign guru Brad Parscale; South Korea's composting efforts; recruitment of minorities for prep schools; short story "Night Swim" by Anne Enright; retrospective on Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld; and a review of singe... View More...
82 pp. Light wear, subscription address label on lower left of front cover. Bob Staake cover "Spectrum of Light" shows columns of the White House in rainbow colors. The cover refers to the Obama administration's long-awaited endorsement of same-sex marriage, first voiced by Vice President Joe Biden on a Meet the Press program, and three days later, a follow-up endorsement by Barack Obama. Other articles include a Jeffrey Toobin article about the Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Also a commentary on the death of illustrator aurice Sendak. Short story "The Proxy ... View More...
Light wear. Illustration by Istvan Banyai uses the storied watering hole as a Christmas season backdrop, showing a lone woman at the bar. (Decades earlier, she wouldn't been allowed inside.) Contents include a Rivka Galchen short story "The Late Novels of Gene Hackman," and a Jeffrey Toobin piece on the broken US Constitution. View More...
KingChamp Books has back issues for most weeks of the New Yorker magazine from 2010 through 2016. E-mail to check on availability and discounts for mutliple-issue purchases. Specify by date and/or cover art. View More...
96 pp. Moderate diagonal wrinkling of cover, lightly thumbed. Cover by illustrator Barry Blitt shows a pensive (or bored?) Obama at a school desk carving marks to show him finishing up his eighth year in office. Articles include "It Happened Here" by David Remnick -- Obama confronts the election's outcome; "Worst Case Scenario" by Giles Harvey -- prophetic satire of "Black Mirror;" "Factory of Fakes" by Daniel Zalewski -- backup copies of the world's greatest art. Plus short story "The Hanging of the Schoolmarm" buy Robert Coover. Reviews of 2 films, "Manchester by the Sea" and "Fantastic Beas... View More...
85 pp. Light wear, no markings. Eye-opening cover presenting the New Yorker masthead in Cyrillic letters, and a phlegmatic Putin using an eyeglass to inspect a Trump butterfly in flight. (Illustration "Eustace Vladimiovich Tilley" by Barry Blitt). This spotlights the magazine's 15-page lead story exploring Russia's apparent months of meddling in the 2016 presidential election, mainly to defeat Hillary Clinton and only secondarily to promote Trump by default. The article, titled "Active Measures," goes back in history to the fall of Communism to show how Putin is bent on restoring Russia's clou... View More...
Light corner crease on cover; subscription label. Cover illustration by Malika Favre shows a profile of a young Queen Elizabeth in red and black against a Union Jack background. Four brief essays about the Queen's death under the "Talk of the Town" headline. View More...
Unpaginated. More than 200 pp. on glossy stock. Front cover has moderate soil and scuffing on pale yellow cloth. Moderate rubbing of spine, but titling intact. A sampling of cartoons from the New Yorker in the period of 1925 to 1950. Some show how the New Yorker in early years ran slightly risque cartoons, and many based on events of WW2. Size: 4to -- 12 IN TALL View More...
