New Yorker magazine alert thread

Well, one of the highlights of their tour is Karl Marx's birthplace.

I just reached that part of the article and it sounds like they were pretty enthused to be there

I think the message to take from that article is "tour groups are awful"

i feel like they prob have a much higher ratio of bus lecturing to actually being at places than other tour groups? but maybe not.

article about kazakhstan in that ish was good too.

if you're gonna spend half a day on a tour bus what else are you gonna do

been reading through the grann book while on holiday

so good

One of dirty Roger Ebert's other caption contest entries:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/upright-position.jpg

^^^ The only one that I liked.

I had a hard time visualizing what that amusement park ride of near death was supposed to entail?

― iatee, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:39 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think basically you're free-falling BACKWARDS, which, like, no thanks.

Didn't really care for the Eagleman article because it was sort of a bait-and-switch: we're talking about time and perception thereof, no wait it's really ("really") about ("about") Deistic agnosticism and hanging out with Brian Eno.

One I did like was one on poverty as a cause of poor health:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_tough

Definitely read as Gawande-like (if Gawande-lite) to me.

Haven't read the cover story ("Middle East of the West?") but I can tell from the subhead that it's going to be one of those UuuuuuNnnnnnngggggghhhh stories to read.

Hated this article, couldn't finish it. So dull.

but answering the poll, prob wyoming

oh i liked that article! i mean it was depressing i guess but i didnt find it dull.

speaking of depressing articles that FBI informant one from this week was pretty alarming.

but answering the poll, prob wyoming

― iatee, Saturday, April 30, 2011 1:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

haha I suck at zing, meant to post this to the island-state thread

I think basically you're free-falling BACKWARDS, which, like, no thanks.

― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:48 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

that's what it seemed like, but that doesn't even seem like a ride, it just seems like....falling into a net

Then you are more X-TREME than me, it sounds terrifying.

no no I agree it sounds terrifying, it just doesn't sound like a 'ride' more like a 'net'

the girl who broke her spine in 20 places

damn

The New Yorker will become the first publication from the S.I. Newhouse, Jr., empire to be available via subscription on the popular tablet, and it will happen early next week, said a source familiar with the situation.

The deal means Condé will actually beat rival Hearst in the iPad subscription derby. Hearst said yesterday it was going to start selling subscriptions and single copies of Esquire, O: the Oprah Magazine and Popular Mechanics via the iPad effective with the July issues, available sometime next month.

Condé is expected to make the New Yorker available next week to capitalize on coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.

But by the end of the May, Condé will have the seven other magazines that are currently selling single-copy-only editions on the iPad available via subscriptions, including Wired, Golf Digest, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Self, Allure and GQ.

The deal will involve drastically slashing the single-copy price of the digital issue to $1.99 from the $4.99 price tag for the digital New Yorker and GQ -- the same as the newsstand price -- and from $3.99 for digital Glamour and Wired.

Annual subscriptions for each title will sell for $19.99.

psyched for this if the UK pricing is equiv

woah yeah thatd be great, would save me quite a bit

whats the point of subscribing to the new yorker if you dont get to anticipate it in your mailbox every week and let its pretty covers pile up in a stack somewhere in your house

my gf just throws them away anyway ;_;

i don't have room for those multiplying new yorker stacks, i reluctantly cleared them all out a couple of years ago and cancelled my subscription, but now i'm gladly going to get this digital one.

heathens

! ;)

Last week's issue (2011-05-02) had some fierce articles:
Quantum computing
FBI informant (above mentioned)
Obama foreign policy

really really psyched

one thing I like about the instapaper new yorkers is that you don't really realize how long they are. (which is a good thing!)

btw that stroller cover was the first actually funny one in a long, long time imo

i enjoyed the toobins thing in this week's, though maybe because it's the first law thing i've read for a while. some really distressing case details referred to in passing. the contributors panel at the start of the magazine says he's working on a follow up to the nine, too.

Who are y'all's favorite cartoonists? Haefeli had one in the last couple weeks that had me IRL LOLing.

Pretty good article on reality tv this (last?) week: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/05/09/110509crat_atlarge_sanneh

Btw, I always get my print copy half a week after the online version goes up (i.e. usually around Thursday). Is it because the Pony Express has difficulty reaching me on the West coast?

I will definitely get the iPad version at $20. Part of the frustration with the dead tree edition was having nothing come for weeks at a time and then three mangled issues show up on the same day. Also, fuck information delivery through deforestation -- it's 2011 for the luvva god.

ipads are made from the tears of factory workers iirc so neither delivery method is perfect

true

:: is properly chastened ::

think i was just feeling defensive on account of just having re-subscribed to the paper edition, & gotten one through. it's an upgrade from reading online with my old login and printing at work, which was really not the best of either world

$60 a year ON IPAD, it turns out. still half the price of an international subscription.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110508/apple-brings-conde-nast-aboard-the-subscription-bandwagon-starting-with-the-new-yorker/

Still more than I've ever had to pay for a US print subscription, though.

wondering if it 'll be easier or harder to ignore ON IPAD

u+k: "Very important: Conde says print subscribers will get iPad access for free."

^^^yeah that is awesome. thinkin baout an iPad tbh

pay $10 more to kill millions of trees

also this:
http://i.imgur.com/YUo0k.jpg

made me go back and read this 5-year old thing on the Death Metal kid who turned Al-Qaeda operative last nite:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/01/22/070122fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

really enjoyed.

"Introducing Oasma to the Mortgage Crisis" ?

Enjoyed the Malcolm Gladwell article about Xerox and the Anthony Lane piece about Pixar tho both seemed (surprisingly?) poorly thought thru. Anthony Lane didn't seem to have much of a point beyond 'look at how weird/cool this company is -- maybe too cool???' which isn't really a problem since his writing is great and Pixar seems legitimately bizarre and magical. The Gladwell article's organizing theory was even more hamfisted than they normally are. You can either be incredibly inventive, build the model perfectly, or execute it perfectly but for some reason can't do all 3 -- it's not clear WHY that is tho. also apparently fighting a war in the Middle East is comparable to Steve Jobs bringing the PC to the market. still i didn't know the Xerox/Apple story and the narrative stuff was really interesting.

yeah you got the impression that pixar offered nyawker an exclusive and they sent lane and he didn't have shit to say but he thinks they're pretty cool

Last week must have been a busy one at America's leading crypto-newsweekly. The announcement of Osama bin Laden's death last Sunday hit the New Yorker at the worst possible moment in the publishing cycle, when bin Laden–free issues were already off the presses and in the mail. (Nice show of gratitude, Mr. President.) So this week's table-of-contents promotional email feels a little frantic—there was the foreign news to be caught up to and seriously grappled with, but the regular news-and-culture calendar could not wait. So:
David Remnick on Osama bin Laden; Steve Coll on the making of a modern fanatic; Lawrence Wright on Pakistan; and Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan. Plus: Malcolm Gladwell on the mouse; Judith Thurman on Alexander McQueen; Anthony Lane on Pixar; John Seabrook on snacks in the age of obesity; James Surowiecki on Dropbox; Joan Acocella on Paula Fox; Joyce Carol Oates on Margaret Drabble; Sasha Frere-Jones on Stevie Nicks; John Lahr on "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures"; Anthony Lane on "Everything Must Go" and "Thor"; fiction by Michael Ondaatje; and more.
Eh, OK, that sounds resoundingly fine. Nothing wrong with falling back on muscle memory in a crisis. But how much more exciting would it be to open the mailbox if Remnick had shaken up the assignments a little? Anthony Lane on Osama bin Laden, for starters. I would read that immediately. How about:

• Malcolm Gladwell on Margaret Drabble.
• Sasha-Frere Jones on "Thor."
• Michael Ondaatje on snacks in the age of obesity.
• Jon Lee Anderson on Alexander McQueen.
• Joan Acocella on the making of a modern fanatic.
• James Surowiecki on Pixar.

And definitely, definitely David Remnick on Stevie Nicks.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2011/05/09/reassignment-memo-the-new-yorker-shuffle.aspx