New Yorker magazine alert thread

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lol yes otm

Horrible Aussie mining billionaire story is awesome. Worst non war criminal person ever?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 March 2013 07:06 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's fairly awful. her transparent efforts to control the press for her own were (and still are) just vile.

for her own *interests

the whole grann book is legit

xp this is the 'poem' she wrote last year

Our Future

The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strife
And billions now are pleading to enjoy a better life
Their hope lies with resources buried deep within the earth
And the enterprise and capital which give each project worth
Is our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacks
Who dig themselves out by unleashing rampant tax
The end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshore
This type of direction is harmful to our core
Some envious unthinking people have been conned
To think prosperity is created by waving a magic wand
Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled
Against miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the world
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.

The Rose Porteous story (identified as Rose Lacson in the Gina Rinheart article) is just as interesting and possibly more lurid

squid update http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/25/3912930/giant-squid-bait-patience-lots-cash-catch-a-monster

OK I'm like the most stupid NYer subscriber I think? Soooooo like some articles are available at nyer.com for free? 'Cause I like reading that format sooooooo much better than the tiny-magazine-digitized-from-print format. Can I get full issues in that free-on-nyerdotcom somehow?

Why am I having so much trouble with these, geez.

yeah only some articles are free and in the good format

the rest are pay and in the bad format

FML

youd think they could just suck all the text out and dump it in the good format im not sure what the problem is

actually I think I deal with the Kindle but I am not gonna go back and pay to get articles from issues past (for which I would have to pay for Kindle, and I have this dumb online archive subscription for the moment).

So before I cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle-only going forward, pleasepleaseplease can ya'll help me with of must-reads from like the past 12 months? Just whatever you remember being awesome in addition to trans teens and giant squids.

there is a not very useful thread fwiw This is the thread where we point out goodies we find in *The Complete New Yorker*

the other David grann piece about the American spy for Cuba is the first thing that comes to mind

And yeah this one: 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

Ice craem man help me out here with the more recent stuff. In no particular order, I have something like:

1) trans teens (aren't there two articles on this? 2)giant squid 3) language inventor 4) Cuban spy (thanks N/A)

5-20 = ?

heres yr grann archives http://www.newyorker.com/search?rows=10&contributorName=david+grann&sort=publishdate+desc%2C+score+desc&page=1

the other David grann piece about the American spy for Cuba is the first thing that comes to mind

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second this

squid piece is old btw

btw that squid guy REALLY loves neil diamond huh

other awesome pieces that come to mind

- libertarian billionaire by george packer
- all louis menand, partic his pieces on dwight macdonald and ts eliot
- "dr don" pharmacist in rural colorado or whatever
- bitcoins
- james suroweicki's recent column on the soda tax
- atul gawande on "hot spotting" (this may not be within a year but as a health care person you should read it)
- piece on dakotah eliason and the juvenile justice system
- tyler clementi :(
- caro on LBJ
- raw milk crazies
- genetically modified mosquitos
- violinist
- confidential informants
- sark
- soldier who tries to track down the family he massacred in iraq
- rachel aviv on sex offenders

how did you remember all that

did you just look itt

dope list kev, +1ing Dr Don & adding
whoever wrote about Neanderthals
all Batuman, particularly Gobekli Tepe & the bird sanctuary
& the Derek Parfit profe

anyway i read most of those and they were good, except caro, that guy cant be serious

did you just look itt

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha m/l

OK I have read some of those but mostly not, gonna hijack my in-law's printer and PRINT those I have not yet read, then cancel dumb online archive subscription and stick to Kindle edition. Thank you v much for recs! Everyone please post more before I cut the archive cord!

FWIW so so many of these were dog-eared in my print editions that were piled liberally around the house; when I had to move out of said house, I tossed them secure in the belief that I could read them on my laptop to my heart's content. Little did I know how sucky that reading experience would be.

that psychonetics one is nuts and also available online free: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer

also the hezbollah reacting to syria one i thought was really nicely written: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/02/25/130225fa_fact_filkins (not freely available)

Love Batuman, but I'd go for the women's theater over the bird sanctuary. Neolithic article is money all the way through, though.

I'd add a couple energy/environment articles, first the one on the artificial leaf (Magritte cover), and then the one about reforesting desert areas.

Cosign on rural pharmacist, that shit was all-time.

the aussie mining lady truly seems horrible, but it is mitigated by how incredibly miserable she seems. like kane x100000

(carol kane)

ya she seems like theres something really wrong w her

she's got a sort of childlike mind in some respects (e.g. self-awareness), so not dissimilar to your michael jackson, say

Which issue is this?

style issue (unbelievably)

Still haven't gotten out. T︵T

It, not out.

quincie you know you can use something like readability to get long web articles onto your kindle

the problemo is that the online archive isn't in standard Web format, it is in a stupid format that I can't flow into another format.

N/A, is it really the case that with the Kindle edition, the old issue is DELETED when the week's new edition is delivered? Like, I don't have access to last week's issue anymore? WTfuckingF?

no it should be in your archives somewhere

that is not the case, back issues stay til you delete them (and even then you can redownload them if you wanted).

Oh wait I see it now, under "Periodicals: Back Issues". God I am dumb.

I promise not to pollute this thread with my digital dumbness anymore. So, what is everyone looking forward to this week?

ah right, you want to print stuff in the archive. i misunderstood. i meant you can kindlify the regular free articles posted on the web.

u dont get the web archives included w the kindle subscription cause u do w ipad

I don't think so?