New Yorker magazine alert thread

great features this week i thought: lepore's history of the legal system & torture was one of her best pieces, transgender teens piece was v informative and even-handed, & the russian ballet story was riveting! i'd missed that on the news

also i'm finally starting david grann's "the devil and sherlock holmes", thanks max

i liked the bader ginsberg profile; she seems like a chill lady

tbh there was some language in the trans teens piece that some trans folks and queer theorists would probably take issue with

how unusual

lol

just read "trial by fire" and wow

As I said in the SCOTUS thread, I thought the Ginsburg piece was kind of puffy, the legal stuff didn't seem that sound and Toobin seems to be overstating her influence(?) (e.g. does Ginsburg's dissent in the Ledbetter case genuinely represent some noteworthy break with traditional SCOTUS roles?), but the human interest stuff was engrossing.

The ballet article vis-a-vis the acid throwing, threatens to look very one-sided, because Filin seems far too reasonable for someone in his position. I do like the brief history of ballet in Russia/USSR, though, esp. Kruschev perving on the ballerinas.

I enjoyed the ballet/acid-throwing article quite a bit. I didn't think it was too one-sided, but then again, I don't know anything about ballet, so maybe Tsiskaridze is right and Filin is really ruining the Bolshoi. I guess the article did make him seem sort of a pompous nut-job, but one with a gift for morose Russian snark and great hair.

why the hell won't this thread bookmark

i laughed at the marv albert shouts and murmurs

lena dunham writes about dogs

yeaahhhh i'm skipping that one

I'll read anything about the doggehs.

who dont want to read abt dawgs

cats

Purell piece was great! I say this as a germophobe. Though like someone said up thread, would've loved a few extra pages. Best parts for me is the paragraph that points out the trade off of the hygiene hypothesis, and how alcohol based sanitizers don't promote microbial resistance.

lol yes "it's like humans developing a resistance to bullets"

I liked the Dapper Dan profile

very few articles feature Fat Joe, Sonia Sotomayor and Mike Tyson

lol yes "it's like humans developing a resistance to bullets"

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loved this & it totally busted a lot of myths i believed in

Yeah, that Purell article converted me from a skeptic to a believer when it comes to hand sanitizers. Not that I intend to start carrying some around with me.

same here. Always thought it was crazy. I was like "where does the dirt go?!?!". But that's not really what it's for.

Been telling EVERYONE all about how bad tongs are since reading that.

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.

Post Purell article, I walked down the street and bought four to scatter around the house. My wife was a little miffed, but on the other hand, we will never get sick again!

The Dapper Dan article was excellent.

ugh I am not getting along very well with the digital edition on my laptop. Gonna try a free sample for the Kindle.

it only works in internet explorer for me (on a computer)

It is technically working fine in Chrome for me; I just hate it and wish I could go back to print :(

I wish I could just dip my laptop in Kindle, web browser, phone, car, books, stereo, pretty much anything in Purell.

is there an app for computers or are you just using the site where its laid out like the magazine because ya that totally blows, the ios apps are p sweet tho

does the article have anything to say about purell vs. just plain water?

forget most of the article now but for the most part alcohol-based hand rubs = soap + water unless your hands are visibly soiled

gawande really should have been given this article tho

dapper Dan and Australian mining heiress articles were both excellent

Purell piece was ok but oddly uncritical, it was basically an article-length ad

it's really, really awesome tbf

i drink the stuff

doesn't mix well with Hendricks

Basically says to get the same results with regular handwashing requires a ridiculously thorough and rigorous regiment of hand washing.

I bet washing with Hendrick's would get pretty good results, too.

OK so the Kindle version is much better than the laid-out-like-a-magazine Web version, gonna cancel that shit after I dip into some of the must-reads that I missed over the past couple of months.

yeah I just upgraded from Nook Simple Touch to Nook HD and NYer looks/acts great on this. Still faced with the same perpetual dilemma of not having time to read the magazine AND any books though...

so depressing when you pick up a NYer and there is NOTHING in it you want to read--

- Another guantanamo article
- Florida sinkholes (ok that one sounds sort of cool)
- Something about the Bolshoi
- transgender surger for teens
- a review of "Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and What We Eat" which sounds sort of like a history of "Transportation" or "Buildings"
- Someone I've never heard of at the Whitney
- David Bowie's new record "Actually, I'm Not Dead Yet"
etc

The transgender article is good

yes, i can imagine that would be depressing

that was a really good issue actually

alright then, subway ride home

i mean i only read the front and the features but the guantanamo, bolshoi, and transgender articles were all quality

loved that issue, even the fiction, which i usually skip, was good.

a history of "Transportation" or "Buildings"

Both of these articles also sound awesome, btw.

i started to read the food one or whatever but then i decided that life was short

so depressing when you pick up a NYer and there is NOTHING in it you want to read--

Wow, I was actually thinking this was the first issue in a long time where I was interested in almost every single article.