New Yorker magazine alert thread

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.

Just realized that those new yorker articles are real and weren't a parody.

hurting u crazy that is an amazing lineup

hurting can we get an apology for your comments earlier re: the articles

Dapper Dan story is great. This kind of stuff is where Kelefa shines, pop-culture stuff that none of their other regulars has the background or comfort zone for.

echoing everyone else who said the transgender teens article was good

the description of one of them as a younger child sounded so much like my life up to about 9. strangers would often refer to me as a boy and I remember being cross if my mother corrected them. I was totally in denial about growing up to be a woman; now I am the boringest straight cis woman and can't imagine life any other way.

sometimes I wonder what would have happened had FTM trans identity been even talked about as possible when I was young, had I not had a body that was very much not man-shaped, had boys not come to seem like the enemy during puberty, so I do have some sympathy for the parents/nurse expressing doubts. but the kids seem like good people who've got things unnervingly sussed out and the largely positive reactions some of them mention are exciting - good luck to them!

i didnt read the article but teens def should not be allowed to make any major life decisions, their brains are not fully formed, science fact

you would like the article because it centers around that issue

note to self: never use the words "centers around" ever again
sorry humanity, i'm trying to get better, i really am

idk i didn't read the article either (lol) but i think in the case of a kid who identifies as transgender that it's fair to consider going through puberty as their assigned gender a bigger, more lasting life decision than for instance taking hormones to delay puberty

i plan on reading this article, in fact every single page of that issue looks singularly fascinating

dapper dan article was awesome; what a rad footnote in american history

what issue was the sinkholes piece in?

the one previous

Lena Dunham, though way beneath NYer's standards, did have a circle of puppies sucking each other's dicks.

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excellent point, thank you

*flips through pages furiously*

Kelefa was AWOL for a while, good to see him back in action.

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

Totes. Sinkhole was good, ballet was good, transgender was good (we have a friend with a daughter in 4th grade who was born male but who has identified female her whole short life). Didn't read Guantanamo, but I'm sure that was good, too.

And then I get the new issue, which not only has a Lena Denham piece (not interested) and not one but two articles that drop the word "punk" into their table of contents description. Style issue, right? Often good stuff in there, but I'll wait to hear more pros than just the Dapper Dan.

i saw the newest issue at the airport and it looked like it said something about burmese punks but these article wasn't in my kindle version?

again, the article about the australian mining heiress this week is also very good - good mix of dry facts and juicy gossip

the sinkhole article isn't bad, and the one on trans kids made me tear up a bit.

burmese punks thing was just a couple of photos.

Wish their photo features were longer. It's always 2-4 pictures.

lold @ "wall to wall gina" in the aussie heiress article

Kelefa was AWOL for a while, good to see him back in action.

He wrote that article about scotch a few weeks back.

Zactly. There were several months missing, followed by a bunch of stuff: Kid Rock, scotch, evangelist, Dapper Dan. Looks like he didn't have anything in the magazine between last May and November before that.

the whole style issue was v good( tho i didnt read the fiction)

lol @ "we wanted to let people use their smart phones to project images on to a gigantic statue of vivienne westwood so they can get a feel for what DIY punk really is"

Ppl who read this on Fancy Kindle (Fire?) and/or Nooks: do you get photos and/or comics? I assume you get those on the iPad app?

I like reading the plain text version on my Not Fancy Kindle (NotFire), but wish I had the funnies :(

ipad yes

I can almost justify buying an ipad for an improved digital NYer experience, but not quite.

kindle version has the comics, they're just all at the end for some reason

regular non-fancy Kindle? How did I miss that?

because they're past the letters and contributor profiles and everything, and they're alone on the second page of the contents

Oh sweet I found them, thanks! I'm on my first Kindle issue and hadn't messed with the content navigation.

at least on the Kindle I could adjust the test size. the ipad ap is some magnifying glass needing shit.

uh, text size

http://newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/01/130401fa_fact_fisher?currentPage=all

harrowing history of abuse at horace mann

Haven't read this, and it's old, but:

• David Grann
• Giant squids

that's the next story in my david grann book! i was just about to start it

that is such an amazing story

btw the one from december about the DMV middle manager who invented his own language and then discovered it had been adopted by a crazy russian far-right psy-ops militant movement was so so good

yeah i loved that story

ditto

the one abt the guatemalan assassination is my fav

from like early last year?

lol sick burn get with it gramps

people keep mentioning going to guatemala & I always feel like saying HEY didn't you read that article it's TERRIFYING there

ha yeah i had that conversation recently

peak grann everyone check it out http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all

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that lede is so great, the way it changes meaning once you read the whole story is so good]

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ha yeah