THE NEW YORKER March 17, 2008.

It is a bit of a bugger when The New Yorker and the London Review of Books arrive on the same day as they did today. It means that not a lot else gets done apart from reading these two outstanding, although very different magazines.

This edition of The New Yorker contains loads of good stuff but there are two pieces which I particularly enjoyed.

GHOST WRITER by Kennedy Fraser is about the outstanding contemporary British writer Pat Barker and the impact that her childhood has had on her writing, while Adam Gopnik, (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children’s Gate: At Home in New York), writes about the art of magic.

Then of course there are all the usual brilliant cartoons.