Scattershots:

• It’s important that I say it took all of this, and The New Yorker, to replace the old Rolling Stone in my heart.

• R.I.P., Washington Post Sunday Magazine. It was great in the 1990s.

• I’m really impressed with the scholarship of the Review and the style of New York.

• Lauren Michele Jackson has become a force to be reckoned with at The New Yorker.