i used to read the main articles in every issue but let most of my 2010 issues pile up without reading anything.
if you read something good in a new issue of the New Yorker, post about it here.
― gr8080, Friday, 31 December 2010 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
The review of the new Mao biographies.
Denby's Joan Crawford essay.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
A trick to not letting them pile up: if you're a subscriber, read a couple of articles online at work.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Man I've thought abt starting this thread a few times
― just sayin, Friday, 31 December 2010 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is why i don't have a subscription
― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 31 December 2010 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Subscription to the print version: $39.95 Subscription to the iPad version: $234.53
― Katstack Katstack! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
AYYYY WE MAKING INTERNET MONEY
― Katstack Katstack! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
alright enough
― J0rdan S., Friday, 31 December 2010 21:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Anything related to Mexico in the past year's issues has been pretty compelling, mostly by William Finnegan and Alec Wilkinson. The Jane Mayer article about the Koch brothers and the discreet establishment of the tea party is definitely worth reading. This week's Gopnik piece on postmodern desserts is a good read, too.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Date and month/description of the cover of the issues you're referring to would be helpful!
― gr8080, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
George Packer's essay on the decadence of the Senate was illuminating.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and, both from around August, the profiles of Gil-Scott Heron and John Lurie.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 31, 2010 3:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^otm
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
links would be nice too
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
recent fire:
Joyce Carol Oates, Personal History, “A Widow’s Story,” The New Yorker, December 13, 2010, p. 70
David Owen, Annals of Environmentalism, “The Efficiency Dilemma,” The New Yorker, December 20, 2010, p. 78
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
only abstracts are online for nonsubscribers for those i think
Some articles are popular enough to remain accessible to all (e.g. the Packer article on the Senate to which I linked above).
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
here's the one abt the koch bros - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
― just sayin, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
A thread like this for all (literary/current event) magazines would be pretty cool.
― Mordy, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Joyce Carol Oates article devastated me.
John Lurie article blew my mind.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
dessert article was excellent, thanks for the recc
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 January 2011 04:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
so john lurie is insane huh
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 January 2011 04:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
seconded
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Saturday, 1 January 2011 08:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Gopnik's desserts article was like a magazine version of the No Reservations episode in Spain.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 1 January 2011 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Which is not meant as a negative at all! They make good companion pieces.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 1 January 2011 09:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
dessert article was good but gtf outta here w/ this
Finally, the server arrives with the Messi dessert, as Jordi fusses anxiously in the background. He presents half of a soccer ball, covered with artificial grass; the smell of grass perfumes the air. On the “grass” is a kind of delicately balanced, S-shaped, transparent plastic teeter-totter—like a French curve—with three small meringues on it, and a larger white-chocolate soccer ball balancing them on a protruding platform at the very end. A white candy netting lies on the grass near the white-chocolate ball.
Then, with a cat-that-swallowed-the-canary smile, the server puts a small MP3 player with a speaker on the table. He turns it on and nods.
An announcer’s voice, excited and frantic, explodes. Messi is on the move. “Messi turns and spins!” the announcer cries, and the roar of the crowd at the Bernabéu stadium, in Madrid, fills the table. The server nods, eyes intent. At the signal, you eat the first meringue.
“Messi is alone on goal!” the announcer cries. Another nod, you eat the next scented meringue. “Messi shoots!” A third nod, you eat the last meringue, and, as you do, the entire plastic S-curve, now unbalanced, flips up and over, like a spring, and the white-chocolate soccer ball at the end is released and propelled into the air, high above the white-candy netting.
“MESSI! GOOOOOAL!” The announcer’s voice reaches a hysterical peak and, as it does, the white-chocolate soccer ball drops, strikes, and breaks through the candy netting into the goal beneath it, and, as the ball hits the bottom of a little pit below, a fierce jet of passion-fruit cream and powdered mint leaves is released into your mouth, with a trail of small chocolate pop rocks rising in its wake. Then the passion-fruit cream settles, and you eat it all, with the white-chocolate ball, now broken, in bits within it.
You feel . . . something of what Messi must feel: first, the overwhelming presence of the grass beneath his feet (he’s a short player); then the tentative elegance of acquired skill, represented by the stepladder of the perfumed meringues; and, finally, the infantile joy, the childlike release, of scoring, represented by the passion-fruit cream and the candy-store pop rocks. I saw Jordi watching us from the kitchen entrance. He had the anxious-shading-into-delighted look that marks the artist.
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 1 January 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Would not recommend this one! People have been arguing about Jevon's Paradox for a century now, and the article doesn't really advance any significant new ideas. As a primer on the "debate" around energy efficiency, however, it's alright.
― hot lava hair (Z S), Saturday, 1 January 2011 23:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ totally recommend that
― markers, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i read that one the other day, great stuff
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
it was interesting, lol scientists
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i liked this one, seemed like a great premise for movie: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_collins
― gr8080, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haven't finished it yet, but I'm digging the Freud, psychiatry, and mental health in China article (subscription needed): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_osnos
― Mordy, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Patel story was amazing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah needs a good 3rd act tho.
― gr8080, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
he only contributed a couple of articles this year but i always enjoy atul gawande's stuff: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande is probably his best piece this year
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
if anyone subscribes then feel free to webmail me the china/freud article kthx
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
I would, but I can't figure out how to turn it into a pdf or another webmail suitable file.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
just copy and paste the text? or is it a different viewer thing.....no worries if that's the case
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
the lehrer article is indeed pretty good and supplies ~evidence~ for my distrust of falsificationism and the inability of some ppl to think of scienctific 'knowledge' subjunctively, tho it does show science self-correcting so i don't read it as a total excoriation of the method
The decline effect is troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that’s often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.
The recent one on the Vatican Library was pretty sweet: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/03/110103fa_fact_mendelsohn
I really like Toobin's diptych on JP Stevens and... the other guy.
nakhchivan, FYI, digital subscription gives you access to this weird applet-y, un-C&P text.
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and that review of the new biography on Sergei Diaghilev was A+++++++ and really wish it was available to all humans: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/09/20/100920crbo_books_acocella
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
you can c+p articles from an library institutional subscription, but the evan osnos china thing is from the jan 10 issue which is not on the library wires yet. if you can't get it nakh, bump this thread in a week or two and i'm sure someone from what the fuck am i getting myself into with this grad school stuff will help you out.
― caek, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lamp, thanks for the Gawande link.
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
ive been using a friends login for the subscriber stuff for a while and the interface is just so poor i dont usually bother to fuck w/it - seems theyd much rather you read the actual magazine - lol
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
^agreed. kind of why i started this thread so i knew which actual magazine to pick up and start reading.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
p interesting follow-up of sorts on the recent duchenne muscular dystrophy activism article -- they just had a spot f/ clay matthews sponsored by cadillac during the orange bowl
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK a TA I had in college had a poem published a few issues ago, woah.
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 05:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
the whole Jan. 11 issue is worth picking up, the aforementioned freud in china article is amazing and hilarious, and it also has decent articles about belgium and why stieg larsson is so fucking popular
― symsymsym, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
i know the concept of 'worth picking up' is still valid, even for subscribers, in translating to 'worth retrieving from the well-intentioned pile of unread NYers', BUT in general it's still worth remembering how insanely valuable subscribing to the magazine is when compared to buying a newsstand copy. like forty bucks, for a year, for it to be mailed to your house, which is the cost of like seven newsstand issues.
― schlump, Monday, 10 January 2011 11:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I actually liked most of the Style issue--Dapper Dan, the crazy billionaire aussie lady, the punk fashion article had some Richard Hell stuff, even the Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:50 PM (1 month ago)
― gr8080, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:13 (6 days ago) Permalink
the Kaling piece better have a cat orgy
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:15 (6 days ago) Permalink
woody allen and steve martin proved that about tv writers well before dunham, odenkirk, and kaling got in the game
― balls, Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:07 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark'
woody allen wrote some amazingly hilarious stuff for the nyer back in the day
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:21 (6 days ago) Permalink
was gonna say. martin wasn't too shabby either... and labeling either of them as "tv writers" suggests that those balls are surrounded by a touch of grey
― utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:27 (6 days ago) Permalink
oh god forks
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:30 (6 days ago) Permalink
I was pretty neutral on Mindy Kaling before reading her NYer piece. Normally I would feel like "hey, kudos, it must be pretty cool to be published in the NYer!" But mostly I feel embarrassed for her. Like this is something she is going to regret in the morning.
Because it is really bad.
― quincie, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:38 (6 days ago) Permalink
tbf the margaret atwood inventions piece is shitty too and she's margaret atwood
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:43 (6 days ago) Permalink
i think the concept for those pieces was just bad overall
i will get by
― balls, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:04 (6 days ago) Permalink
Cyber espionage piece is A+, if not something I should be reading first thing in the morning.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 10:56 (5 days ago) Permalink
"We're completely fucked."
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:13 (5 days ago) Permalink
a lot of times people who do good work try something a lil out of their wheelhouse and maybe dont care so much and it comes out bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:24 (5 days ago) Permalink
anyone ever read David Mamet on politics and life my god
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 12:25 (5 days ago) Permalink
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, May 17, 2013 5:56 AM (3 hours ago)
is this in the newest one?
― gr8080, Friday, 17 May 2013 13:58 (5 days ago) Permalink
yerp
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 14:15 (5 days ago) Permalink
Looking forward to getting my hopes up and ultimately quashed with the fungus plastic and the renewable turbine energy articles.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:32 (5 days ago) Permalink
i noticed two different articles commented on the number of piercings the person being profiled has
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:38 (5 days ago) Permalink
Finally got an ipad subscription after usually buying loose issues. Will start with the cyber crime one first (in the evening)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 16:45 (5 days ago) Permalink
for what it's worth i think the mobile experience is going to drastically improve soon - i interviewed for a mobile app developer job at the nyer a couple months ago and some of the stuff in the pipeline is pretty cool. for one thing, they're moving the ipad version from adobe's proprietary platform to html5 - aka the reason it's normally about six times the filesize of the iphone version. it sounds like conde nast is finally investing pretty heavily in .com and the mobile division, which is long overdue imo
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:37 (5 days ago) Permalink
good to hear
― markers, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:44 (5 days ago) Permalink
Oh wow that is good to hear! I understand now why a single issue is 200+ mb, which is... steep. Five issues are 1gb. With my 16gb ipad that can become a problem quite soon.
The app itself is very clear and reader-friendly, but it's also clunky, and not very intuitive. For one, you can't even pinch and zoom in on the text (not that's not big enough, but I like adjusting it to how I want it to be).
Looking forward to the update.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:48 (5 days ago) Permalink
hey so i'm totally about to board this plane. should be p cool. see u later
― arby's, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:54 (5 days ago) Permalink
haha wrong thread
― arby's, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:55 (5 days ago) Permalink
Haha, order your subscription NOW arby's!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:56 (5 days ago) Permalink
they're moving the ipad version from adobe's proprietary platform to html5
oh god i hope this doesn't require an active connection (i assume not)
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:05 (5 days ago) Permalink
nope - it'll function identically to the iphone version, which is already html5-based. each page of the ipad version, iirc, literally gets rendered as a bitmap
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:22 (5 days ago) Permalink
iphone issues are too big too tho ~40mb
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 May 2013 23:46 (5 days ago) Permalink
so i read that mindy kaling article, it wasn't great but neither were any of the other ones in that pretty dumb recurring feature... really dont see why hers deserved calling out or why its like PROOF she's untalented or something
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 May 2013 04:14 (4 days ago) Permalink
oh ace
lagϚn: 40 mb isn't too bad given the images, but i agree that 10 mb would be preferable
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 May 2013 08:22 (4 days ago) Permalink
theres no way the the v few images for such a small screen should add up to 40mb, still some weird shit going on there, i mean 40mb for the iphone screen is m/l the same thing as 200 for the ipad
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:40 (4 days ago) Permalink
"I asked if he or Gavin knew anything about fungi, and he said, 'Not that much. I told him that I felt the universe had been directing me to change my life. Skidmore had cut fungi out of the curriculum, and at a Dreaming with the Dead workshop in '05, I had received a message: 'Life is mushrooming.' I was testing him to see how he would react. I told him what had happened the night before--I had seen a milk snake doing a dance of death beside a road near my house, and when I checked again the snake was curled in the shape of a heart. This was a sign that I should do what I loved. Even listened, and totally got what I was saying. That's when I knew I could work with him. I asked him, 'Can we get married?'"
From the plastic fungus piece.
― Gregor Sansa (Leee), Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:35 (4 days ago) Permalink
yeah i love the way the author just kind of drops the superwoowoo lady into that piece
― discreet, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:37 (4 days ago) Permalink
i stopped reading that a page or so in because i was like i'm not even sold on this being a thing yet, do i really need to know all about these guys' extended family history, but should i go back?
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:34 (4 days ago) Permalink
try reading it backwards
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:46 (4 days ago) Permalink
I unno, I didn't mind the family history tbh! Anyway it kind of pays off quickly in that it explains the initial eureka moment, and maybe how they were able to get their startup off the ground (still reading it atm).
― llama del rey (Leee), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:46 (4 days ago) Permalink
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, May 18, 2013 4:34 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
very frequently feel this way about new yorker articles
― flopson, Saturday, 18 May 2013 21:25 (4 days ago) Permalink
yeah they could def stand to leave out the background info from time to time
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 22:52 (4 days ago) Permalink
u mad that's what i read nyer for
― gr8080, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:01 (4 days ago) Permalink
its sometimes illuminating but sometime not and like im just sayin feel free to switch up the format occasionally
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:04 (4 days ago) Permalink
a nyer story: zoom in, zoom out, childhood, factoids, factoids, think abt it
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:05 (4 days ago) Permalink
ya that was def something that i really loved about it when i first got into the mag, all the character profiles & the way they'd humanize the most obscure or even evil ppl... but sometimes i find it tiresome, idk like it's stretching out to cover up for less thorough reporting, describing in minute detail what the person was wearing to cover up for the short & shallow interview they're using
― flopson, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:53 (3 days ago) Permalink
I wish I were a humanities grad student and could make a thesis out of analyzing all NYer writing, ever, and determine what percentage of pieces had a physical description of someone and/or his/her attire as the second sentence.
― quincie, Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:06 (3 days ago) Permalink
they don't print many photos; physical discriptions are important
― gr8080, Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:45 (3 days ago) Permalink
they famously didn't print any photos until somewhat recently. for some reason 'no photos' was a point of pride for a certain class of publication - nyer, new republic, wall st journal.
― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 03:08 (3 days ago) Permalink
the whole thing of setting up a story and then about 1/5 of the way in going "klaus dingeldore was born in a placid rhineland village in 1972. his father was a monkey keeper" is 100% just part of the structure of its profile pieces but i didnt really think the mushroom thing was going to be a profile piece but more of a science/product thing i guess. i guess i was less interested in hearing about the family history of a 28-year-old cool dude who has an exciting new form of styrofoam.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:12 (3 days ago) Permalink
well to be a little reductive it's supposed to be literary journalism, these aren't blog posts
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:00 (3 days ago) Permalink
If y'all want to have some fun, dig up some ancient issues of the magazine, when every story was 30 pages too long and the mag from page to page looked like a cut-n-paste zine-quality design mess.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:35 (3 days ago) Permalink
I recall the multi-issue stories from my childhood, when mom and dad would argue over who did or did not throw out/lose/otherwise displace an issue before the other could read Part 1.
― quincie, Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:22 (3 days ago) Permalink
thank u 4 new dn slocks
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:28 (3 days ago) Permalink
there's more science in the article but it's a bit basic and ted-talky. best part is the lady in the excerpt leeeeee quoted and the angry man who teaches you how to invent stuff
― discreet, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:27 (2 days ago) Permalink