A Very Strange Centenary in the Penny Press!

The New Yorker celebrates its 100th birthday ... I think ...

There's a single line buried deep in Arthur Krystal's long discussion of apocalyptic literature (and, occasionally, almost tangentially, Dorian Lynskey's book on the same topic, Everything Must Go) in the 3 February issue of The New Yorker: “On the plus side, [the book has] a section titled 'Climate,' which tips its hat to Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, Jonathan Schell, and Jonathan Franzen, is, in its way, an implicit tribute to this magazine's informed recognition that was threatens the environment threatens us.”