New Yorker magazine alert thread

i am related to some of them :(

I know one otherwise-normal guy who was way ahead of the curve re: gluten (and went from 120 pounds soaking wet to a normal weight when he eliminated it) but everyone else is definitely down with Ron Paul, Crossfit, essential oils, hatred of GMOs and most of them think Jesus got his six-pack via avoidance of bread.

he gained weight going gluten-free?

one of the effects of gluten intolerance is diarrhea so that's not shocking

maybe "soaking wet" is a phone autocorrecting "overweight"?

i bet they got a ~ton~ of letters on the marx service animal article

interesting that 1 pts out that 16 states have passed laws defining the misrepresentation of a service animal as a crime -- then the next letter, the women confesses to exactly that

Amazing: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3

xpost They did print three letters re: the Marx piece, which usually implies a deluge.

I liked the Alex Ross Beethoven piece a lot, about how he's been deified into shorthand but really should be praised in deeper detail to justify as well as promote his genius.

Amazing: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3

They could've labeled that as a Shouts & Murmurs and I would've been none the wiser.

'everyone should be talking about HoMo'

this guy is a fuckin' treasure

/Amazing: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/crystal-ball-3/

They could've labeled that as a Shouts & Murmurs and I would've been none the wiser.

article about this fuckin _modern farmer_ magazine lady is hilarious http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/read-reap

yeah, i thought the modern farmer piece carefully walked the line between "young entrepreneur in transition" and "can you believe these fuckin people" until it didn't and then it got funny
the part where she was unwilling to carry the recently killed chicken (but not to buy and have someone else prepare them for her to eat!) was A++

yeah the authorial "I" during that bit carried a disdain for the article's subject that teetered on the edge of unseemly, new-yorker-wise

at least in the remnick era

loved the rachel aviv piece on the sex abuse and the hasidic jews

Aviv is so good.

must have been a nightmare to fact-check

Rachel Aviv's underutilized Twitter also pretty special https://twitter.com/RachelAviv/with_replies

The drone war in Pakistan

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/unblinking-stare

good article. i assume we can expect boycotts and hysterical cries of genocide any minute now?

i just bumped into anthony lane's scarlett johannson profile whilst flipping through the backlog. Good lord is that thing ever embarrassing.

so embarrassing, like being naked in front of a bunch of people, soft shoulders and toned body in full display??

are you... are you watching me right now?

listen i just love film

i've been really enjoying the recent spate of hipster takedown articles lately: the emotional-support animal one, specter's pieces on GMOs and gluten intolerance. nicely sums up most of what i hate about vermont

although the food issue had an advertisement for an "integrative cancer center" so there's that

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/double-jeopardy-3

this was a fantastic piece of reporting. the judge's justifications at the very end almost made me physically ill

osnos: i shall build this profile of samantha power around the theme of her astounding height

fact-checker: 5'9" is above average but hardly unusual

osnos: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes but over 6' when wearing heels

o shiii

I also like how they found room to add a paragraph describing the horny French diplomat's feelings

in france we do not have zis . . . politique correctness, oui?

We do not know of zee appropriate way to live!

*squeezes ze airboobs*

Who knew that New Zealand had a mammal problem?

Not I.

Me neither! Grim but fascinating.

*squeezes ze airboobs*

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my new favorite thing

"People have hoity-toity reasons for preferring one kind of entertainment to another," he said later. "To me, it doesn't matter whether you're looking at cat photos that inspire you or so-called 'high art' that inspires you."

that is so generous of him

i mean, it really sets my mind at ease

wau that guy

The most amazing thing about the New Zealand mammal problem a few weeks back is that I can't buy a t-shirt with this on it: http://www.rimutakatrust.org.nz/images/pfnz..png

My god @ the viral king and his horrible father who made him listen to Tony Robbins while being home-schooled.

I do appreciate the NYer profiles were you can tell the author is filled with disdain for the subject.

lol that the "biographies" his parents had him read were all one page long

Whoa: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/pop-music-critic-leaves-the-new-yorker-to-annotate-lyrics-for-a-start-up.html

Sasha Frere-Jones leaving the building for more money and better hours, it appears

How dare he.

Seriously, though, has the guy ever written a NYorker piece that was either persuasive or perceptive? I liked his recent Eno profile, and sometimes he does a good job describing something, but mostly his essays are just a bunch of background setup, and then at the end he sticks in a graf about the album in question.

Fortunately, there are so many music writers out there with nothing to do, or not as much as they should be doing, that they should have no problem finding a replacement. Though at the same time it would be nice if they just tossed Christgau in the ring again.

RIP ABQ: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/son-deceased

found the batuman piece very moving

i am in an unprecedented unsubscribed phase, right now, & worse still have temporarily transferred my attention to harper's; what else was good lately?

So is there no successor to Sasha Frere-Jones on the pop music beat? Online I see one piece by Hua Hsu on Future Brown and one by K. Sanneh on Waxahatchie.

i think they're still figuring it out.