US President Barack Obama's biographer and Editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick has said that Republican candidate Mitt Romney is showing ideological opportunism and confusion ahead of the Presidential elections. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the Pulitzer Prize winner said that Obama may have not fared well in the first Presidential debate in Denver, but will not lose time before turning around real quick and doing a lot better in the ...
09:47 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook temporarily banned The New Yorker's cartoon page for violating their community standards on "Nudity and Sex". The cartoon, drawn by New Yorker's author Mick Stevens, had a naked Adam and Eve leaning against a tree, with nipples-as-dots fully exposed. After Facebook banned the page, the author drew the cartoon again, featuring the couple in clothes, "but the gain in clothes caused too great a loss in humour,"...
07:23 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine. The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night. "The story is written in terse dispatches of 140 characters or less, which will be tweeted, through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter...
11:06 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Australia have added left-handed batsman Rob Quiney to their squad as cover for all-rounder Shane Watson for the first Test against South Africa. Watson injured his calf playing for New South Wales against Queensland on Saturday and is a doubt for the test, which begins on Friday at the Gabba in Brisbane. A decision on Shane is likely to be made earlier rather than later, national selector John...
01:32 PM, Jul 15, 2008
