Couples: The breaking up of the Winships / James Thurber
The house of mirth / Peter De Vries
The Zagat history of my last relationship / Noah Baumbach
8 simple rules for dating my ex-wife / David Owen
Audio tour / Patricia Marx
Share our joy / Larry Doyle.
The flesh is weak: Frigidity in men / E.B. White
The New Yorker Advisor / Roger Angell
The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen
My sexual fantasies / Jim Windolf
Aristotle on relationshiops / Frank Gannon
Four short crushes / Paul Simms.
Children's hours: Stage father/ Calvin Trillin
Shiftless little loafers / Susan Orlean
Recently discovered childhood letters to Santa / Johnny Carson
How to lay off your kids / Carina Chocano
Camp Correspondence / Bruce McCall
College essay / Christopher Buckley
Inappropriate / Paul Rudnick
The wisdom of children / Simon Rich
Animal crackers: Coyote v. Acme / Ian Frazier
What to do about sharks / Bruce McCall
All I really need to know I learned by having my arms ripped off by a polar bear/ Andrew Barlow
Animals all around us / Jack Handey
The living dead / David Sedaris
Talking chimp gives his first press conference / Paul Simms
My dog is Tom Cruise / Noah Baumbach
Aesop in the city / Yoni Brenner
Animal tales / Simon Rich.
No business like show business: Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S.J. Perelman
Early morning of a motion picture executive / Thomas Meehan
Hollywood in the fifties / Garrison Keillor
Running through the wall / Frank Gannon
The envelope, please: a viewer's guide to the Emmys / Jon Stewart
Theatre-lobby notices / Andy Borowitz
Studio script notes on The passion / Steve Martin
Why we strike / Larry Doyle.
Artists and authors: Theory and practice of editing New Yorker articles / Wolcott Gibbs
Life cycle of a literary genius / E.B. White
Complete guide for book reviewers / Ruth Suckow
How to tell a major poet from a minor poet / E.B. White
The Metterling lists / Woody Allen
Without whose unfailing encouragement / H.F. Ellis
Jack Schmidt, arts administrator / Garrison Keillor
England picks a poet / Ian Frazier
Settling an old score / Veronica Geng
Unspoken O'Neill / Henry Alford
Van Gogh in AOL / Noah Baaumbach
Picasso promoting Lady with a fan / Steve Martin
Suiable for framing / David Sedaris
Ideas for paintings / Jack Handey
The knowledge / Henry Alford.
Song of myself: The little hours / Dorothy Parker
The early essays / Woody Allen
I embrace the new candor / George W.S. Trow
Carbohydrates / Polly Frost
Shiksa goddess / Wendy Wasserstein
Lowering my standards / Jack Handey
Suffering fools gladly / Andy Borowitz
An announcmeent / Mark Singer
Pledge drive / Patricia Marx
Thin enough / Ian Frazier
Real imitations: A visit from Saint Nicholas / James Thurber
Intruder in the dusk / Peter De Vries
No kaddish for Weinstein / Woody Allen
Rolled in rare Bohemian onyx, then vulcanized by hand / Bruce McCall
Oldfinger / Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely
The last catalogue / John Kenney
The ethicist / Steve Martin
Under the Provençal deadline / Bruce McCall
Jewelers' Caesar / Anthony Lane
Class notes / Ian Frazier
Air pockets / Bruce McCall
The Lonely Planet guide to my apartment / Jonathan Stern
Ask the optimist! / George Saunders.
Testaments and declarations: The diary of a lady / Dorothy Parker
The secret life of James Thurber / James Thurber
End of the trail / Garrison Keillor
My and Ed's peace proposals / Veronica Geng
You missed it / Geroge W.S. Trow
A man who can't love / George W.S. Trow
How I'm doing / David Owen
My living will / Paul Rudnick
What I'd say to the Martians / Jack Handey
This is no game / Jack Handey
Proclamation / George Saunders.
The great and the good: What, another legend? / Marshall Brickman
The New York Review of Gossip / Marshall Brickman
The Bloomsbury Group live at the Apollo / Ian Frazier
Kimberley Solzhenitsyn's calendar / Ian Frazier
Record roundup / Veronica Geng
Babe Ruth: my teammate, my lover / Roger Angell
Donald Rumsfeld orders breakfast at Denny's / Frank Gannon
What would Jesus test-drive? / Jesse Lichtenstein
Intelligent design / Paul Rudnick
Jeeves and W / Christopher Buckley.
Explanations and advisories: So you're going to New York / Robert Benchley
A hard day at the office / Peter De Vries
A look at organized crime / Woody Allen
The people's shopper / Garrison Keillor
Seek dwellings for MX / Cathleen Schine
Side effects / Steve Martin
Superstring theory for dummies / Zev Borow
Researchers say / Ian Frazier
Brainteasers: the aftermath / Don Steinberg
A survey of the literature / George Saunders
Your table is ready / John Kenney
Pre-approved for platinum / Frank Gannon
May we tell you our specials this evening? / Larry Doyle
Getting started / Bruce McCall
I'm afraid I have some bad news / Larry Doyle
How to operate the shower curtain / Ian Frazier.
Past imperfect: No starch in the dhoti, si'l vous plaît / S.J. Perelman
More, and still more, memories of the nineteen-twenties / Michael J. Arlen
The Pickwick capers / Bruce McCall
The gospel of Debbie / Paul Rudnick
1992 house / Billy Frolick
Further proof that Lincoln was gay / Paul Rudnick.
Field notes from all over: Show dog / Susan Orlean
The tired chronicles / Betsy Berne
Paranoid packaging / John Updike
Conscientious consumption / David Brooks
The end matter/ Louis Menand
The underminer / Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan
Model citizens / Nancy Franklin
Space case / Anthony Lane.
Personal history: The night the bed fell / James Thurber
The huntress / Wolcott Gibbs
Disquiet, please, we're turning! / S.J. Perelman
Confessions of a standup sausage eater / Calvin Trillin
A Purim story / Adam Gopnik
In the waiting room / David Sedaris
Tasteless / David Sedaris.