Info

• Opens Sat Jun 14 2025
• 90 minutes

Synopsis

The course explores literary highlights from this weekly magazine which celebrated its centenary in 2025. Over ten weeks, we’ll chart The New Yorker’s evolution from a Manhattan-focused ‘fifteen-cent comic paper’, as its original editor asserted, to a magazine still able ‘to surprise, delight, and inform with accuracy and depth,’ as its current editor asserts.

Course Tutor: Robert Hemmings, PhD

Dr Robert Hemmings has been teaching, researching, and writing about literature and culture for more than 30 years. He has published on a wide range of topics, including modernism, material culture, nostalgia, trauma, medical humanities, war poetry and children’s literature. He has a special interest in lifelong learning and so is very pleased to have the opportunity to read and discuss poetry and other cultural texts at the Ilkley Playhouse.

Course dates on Thursdays 10.30am-12 noon:

18th and 25th September 2025

2nd and 23rd October

6th,13th, 20th and 27th  November

4th and 11th December

Cost: £80 for 10 weeks

Sheridan Suite/Greenroom