Another annual reading list I’m putting up without much commentary, but there were some bangers in 2025. “The point seems to be this,” Kate Briggs writes, “left to its own devices, the path of reading is very rarely chronologically ordered, thematically coherent, limited by language or respectful of borders. Books open out onto, they cross with and follow haphazardly on from one another. Left to its own devices, the path of reading strays all over the place.”
(Previously: 2024 in Reading, 2023 in Reading, 2022 in Reading, 2021 in Reading, 2020 in Reading)
| Legend | Rough Guide to Ratings |
|---|---|
| 🎭 – Plays 📝 – Poetry 📖 – Books (Fiction) 📓 – Books (Nonfiction) 💬 – Graphic Novels 🔄 – Reread 🎙️ – Audiobook | ❤︎ = Yes ❤︎❤︎ = Oh Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Oh Hell Yes |
Turns out I’m two years behind on these so I’m getting ’em up! No commentary because I gotta run out the door to ink more pages of Seacritters, but hopefully I’ll come back to this down the line.
(Previously: 2023 in Reading, 2022 in Reading, 2021 in Reading, 2020 in Reading)
| Legend | Rough Guide to Ratings |
|---|---|
| 🎭 – Plays 📝 – Poetry 📖 – Books (Fiction) 📓 – Books (Nonfiction) 💬 – Graphic Novels 🔄 – Reread 🎙️ – Audiobook | ❤︎ = Yes ❤︎❤︎ = Oh Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Oh Hell Yes ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ = Obviously this one hit at the right place and the right time |
Exhibit Of Interest: Mick Stevens to Show Work On Martha’s Vineyard
Mick Stevens, who began contributing to The New Yorker in December of 1979, tells the Spill that:
“There’s a show of a dozen or so of my older original New Yorker drawings here at The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in Vineyard Haven. The show will run for the entire month of May. The artist will be lurking there from time to time.”
Here’s a personal fave New Yorker drawing by Mr. Stevens (not sure this will be included in the exhibit) :
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Some Stevens Cartoon Collections…
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of April 18, 1936
Such fun New Yorker time traveling via the weekly New Yorker State of Mind posts.
This week: the issue of April 18, 1936.
Cover by the one-and-only Rea Irvin.
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Digs Into The Issue Of April 11, 1936
A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker: always fun, always interesting reading.
This week: the issue of April 11, 1936. Read it here.
Cover by Helen Hokinson.
Her A-Z Entry:
Helen Hokinson (above) Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956). According to a New Yorker document produced during Harold Ross’s editorship (1925-1951) rating their artists, Ms. Hokinson and Peter Arno occupied a special category unto themselves above all others.
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NONTHABURI Thai police have arrested a 33-year-old man suspected of murdering his 25-year-old girlfriend, a popular online seller and influencer, whose body was discovered in a ransacked condominium room in the Bang Bua Thong district, authorities said on May 3, 2026. The victim, identified as Panitsuda Hattadol (also known as “Dream”), a 25-year-old online vendor […]
Boyfriend Arrested for Murder of Popular Online Vendor and Influencer Girlfriend in Nonthaburi Condominium
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Sa Kaeo – Thai authorities have secured court approval to detain eight Chinese nationals suspected of being senior members of a major scam network operating out of Poipet, Cambodia, after the group was caught attempting to enter Thailand illegally. The suspects, seven men and one woman, were arrested along with a Myanmar national on May […]
Eight Chinese Nationals Linked to Cambodian Scam Network Detained in Eastern Thailand
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