Archive - Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.

An Evening with Martin Amis

With Salman Rushdie, Lorrie Moore, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, et al.

May 10 •

April 2025

The Favoritism Grift

In a new New Yorker Comment, I take up the question on many people’s minds: Why aren’t our major civil institutions—universities, law firms, and so…

Apr 14 •

March 2025

Fast Times in the Magazine Business

In this week’s New Yorker—the so-called Style Issue—I have a Books piece about a new memoir, by Graydon Carter, called “When the Going Was Good.” Carter…

Mar 16 •

The Existential Crisis of Great American Universities

Major change in the United States often appears first on university campuses.

Mar 8 •

November 2024

After the Election

With the closure of the polls a week ago, the country turned its attention to a new political reality.

Nov 13, 2024 •

October 2024

My Interview with Kamala Harris

A couple of months ago, when there was an opening in the Democratic ticket for the presidency, I started phoning up people who had worked with Kamala…

Oct 11, 2024 •

April 2024

The Art of Attention

The Order of the Third Bird, and Helen Vendler.

Apr 30, 2024 •

November 2023

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: Turkey Omnibus

Wayward Press, Wayward Cities, Wayward Fashion

Nov 24, 2023 •

May 2023

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: Traffic, Amis, Clubs

May 30, 2023 •

December 2022

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: Paula West at Twenty-Five

For Auld Lang Syne

Dec 30, 2022 •

August 2022

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: The Brothers Liberman

Selling Your Future

Aug 7, 2022 •

April 2022

Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: Event This Sunday

Apr 22, 2022 •

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