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The Art of the Crossword

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide, detailing how to curate word lists, use software to…

The Art of the New Yorker Cover

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or photography typical of magazine covers. What gives the…

Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from their time in Paris during the First…

Eight copolyester resins from Eastman receive RecyClass approval

Eastman received RecyClass Recyclability Approvals for eight copolyester resins and their equivalent Renew grades, containing recycled content. RecyClass is a non-profit, cross-industry initiative promoting recyclability, transparency and traceability abot plastics in Europe. Six copolyesters, also known as speciality PET, were…

Lundy’s and the Risks of Restaurant Revivals

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The Lundy Brothers Restaurant, better known as Lundy’s,…

My Life with Left-Handed Women

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree…

Finding a Home Among the Punks

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the early nineteen-eighties, Gail Butensky, then an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Chicago, started taking photographs of punk bands for the Daily Northwestern. “I had pretty wimpy taste in high…