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The subject of the controversy was a drawing by Steinberg known as View of the World from 9th Avenue or A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World. The drawing, which appeared on the cover of the March 29, 1976 issue of The New Yorker , depicts four city blocks of Manhattan in great detail, with the rest of the United States and the world ...
William Hamilton (June 2, 1939 – April 8, 2016) was an American cartoonist and playwright. He was most closely associated with the magazine The New Yorker.Hamilton was noted for his wit and irony and for presenting his characters, most often examples of modern, affluent types, with distinctive "ski-jump" noses noted for a peculiar shape that has become a sort of unofficial trademark.
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914, Rm. Sărat, Romania – May 12, 1999, New York City) [1] [2] was an American artist, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".
Robert Gottlieb was born in 1931 to a Jewish family [5] in Manhattan, New York City, where he grew up on the Upper West Side. [6] His middle name was given to him in honor of his uncle, Arthur Adams, who is now known to have been a Soviet spy. [7]
Hendrik Hertzberg (born July 23, 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of The New Republic, and is the author of ¡Obámanos!
The New Yorker. January 22, 2007. "Bus ride : a bus ride to the anti-war protest on the Pentagon". Hell No Dept. The New Yorker. April 2, 2007. "Neptune's navy : Paul Watson's wild crusade to save the oceans". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker. November 5, 2007. "Dem delegates". Bronx Cheers. The New Yorker. September 15, 2008.
Shawn rose to assistant editor of The New Yorker and oversaw the magazine's coverage of World War II. He had been trying to get a story out of John Hersey for years. After Life magazine rejected Hersey's profile of future president John F. Kennedy, Shawn seized the opportunity. The story ran in The New Yorker and was reprinted in the Reader's ...
The Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA) is an operating foundation established in 1925 by US industrial heir and magnate Charles Richard Crane to advance American understanding of international cultures and affairs by sending young professionals abroad to study countries, regions and globally important issues.