New Yorker magazine alert thread

one thing that article (understandably) doesn't touch on is how a disaster at that level would impact america's national economy / ripple effect on international markets

hate to be that guy but i wish someone would write an article like that about climate change, which will have even worse effects within our lifetime, is global, near-certain to happen, and (partially) preventable. but i guess it's fun to consider new disasters

i don't know why i even mentioned that, sorry

i've turned into a full-on read-it-on-the-iphone kind of guy. never thought it would be true but the train is too crowded both to and from work, so iphoning it is the only way to go.

one thing that article (understandably) doesn't touch on is how a disaster at that level would impact america's national economy / ripple effect on international markets

I really do think that if it transpired as predicted in that article, it would hurt the economy on a truly huge level, like 9/11 with no one to invade in retaliation. It would be like a great depression, in every sense.

see that's my first thought but (blue sky thinking/) it could also spur the largest rebuilding/reclamation project in history, revitalize the nation, galvanize an entire generation and define our historical era. Or total global economic meltdown, sure.

Think of how hard it was to put a monument up at the 9/11 site. Let alone a building. And that's a spot, not a huge region. I don't have high hopes we could handle this. Though on the plus side (and I'm not saying this to be snide) there's a lot of room in, like, Idaho and Montana and Wyoming, if they had to temporarily put people places. But I could also imagine a mass, ugly exodus to northern California, and even that would largely be by people of means.

Then again, as horribly destructive as Katrina was, the fact that only ("only") 2000 or so died, even factoring in the flooding of a major city (that's still there), is a small miracle.

hate to be that guy but i wish someone would write an article like that about climate change, which will have even worse effects within our lifetime, is global, near-certain to happen, and (partially) preventable. but i guess it's fun to consider new disasters

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the nyer article reminded me a lot of the rolling stone global warming article about miami http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620

xp having lived in and around NY prior, during and after september 11 i can say that the issues of rebuilding were pretty sui generis and that an untethered federal government with the referendum of a nation behind it could (I hope) create this millenia's new deal. or, again, maybe not! I sincerely hope i don't live to see this particular nightmare happen; i have friends and family out that way!

the portentous tone of the earthquake piece is a GIGANTIC turnoff for me :/

Yeah, if there's anything I didn't appreciate it's that "Here's how it's going to happen. First, the electricity ... Second, the women and children ..." vibe. It's scary enough without the hypotheticals (even if things as they transpire will likely be even worse than predicted).

this is all making me want to read some kim stanley robinson

it's not like this earthquake has to happen for 2065 to look apocalyptic from an ecological standpoint

Miami is basically doomed already. At least we've got something in common, Northwesters.

http://www.billy.com/Images/moving-locations/montana-movers.jpg

xp yeah, the tone is intense but it's very effective! people are sharing this left and right. may conceivably spur some political action.

Political action to do what?

trade embargoes on tectonic plates

un peacekeepers posted to patrol the ocean floor

I assume the political action would be toward preparedness funding

Adam Gopnik on Go Set A Watchman.

What jon said

Kate Beaton cartoon this week. Not her best work by any means but at least she can draw.

Yeah, I was happy to see her in there. I think she's had one or two in the New Yorker before, but I'd love her to become part of the regular roster. My favorite working cartoonist by a good distance.

I will admit that I have seriously considered setting up a Tumblr to review each week's New Yorker cartoons using a rigorous and scientific method but I am too lazy.

#caucasity

#notallnewyorkercartoons

#whiteneurosesmatter

(also usable as a Woody Allen hashtag)

K.Sanneh's thing on free speech wars is OK but pretty superficial. I think there are more interesting things to say about all that, but he mostly makes the obvious points and then shrugs.

Learning this morning of the death (probably) of Natalia Molchanova, sure enough she was the subject of an excellent article on her back in 2009 (the only reason I had heard of her). The surprising degree of physical adaptability of humans came through, reading about her.

Hey, the May 18 2015 had one of those rare (i.e. less than one a year) "Shouts & Murmurs" pieces I've stuck my neck out to recommend, "Playground Purgatory" by Colin Nissan.

Liked the Mexican tunnel piece.

Hey, what's Grann up to?

i've been wondering that lately too

Only online, but a new report from Jon Lee Anderson, who I'll read anytime:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/isis-rises-in-libya

there was a longform podcast - i can't remember who, but a guy who'd iirc written an atavist story, & maybe been on more than once - with this great story about the writer finding this sort of perfect time capsule of forgotten americana, finding some clipping about something like an old native american reservation & the various zig-zagging currents impacting the territory over time, & the guy getting a book deal on the strength of the premise, only to hear as soon as his press release went out that david grann had been working on a book about the saga for two years. so i guess he's writing a book.

yeah about this i think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders

menaud on didion - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/out-of-bethlehem

An editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Henry Robbins, encouraged Didion to turn the piece into a book. Nine months later, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” appeared as the title essay in her first collection of nonfiction. It is the phrase everyone knows Joan Didion by.

i like menand but this (tbqh) is so rong i want to slap a mofo.
the phrase everyone knows joan didion by is "we tell ourselves stories in order to live.
afaik yeats still owns "slouching..."

William B. (for "Bad Posture") Yeats

that piece on Trump and White Nationalists is pretty scary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COECtWlWcAAHBY7.jpg

so garbage

waht

"So guys, do we go with Kanye as Truman or Nicki dressed as Khaleesi ordering her dragons to incinerate Miley?"

there should be an option where they'll send you coverless issues or like just the standard tophat dude cuz yeah thanks no thanks

Sometimes lately I feel a little fatigued by NYer style longform, partly I'm sure a product of my decaying attention span in the internet era, and perhaps also partly a result of just having been a NYer reader for about 18 years now. There's so much *atmosphere* in the stories, very often created with similar techniques, and I find myself more and more just wanting to get information and analysis. The writer was driving to meet someone in a jeep, he saw some stuff on the way, disconsolate mood ensues.

someone explain why the kanye cover is bad

not not good but bad

it's so obviously trying to become a meme just relax you're the new yorker

that's blitt's sop right?

he's their amusing memey topical cover dude

he's been doing it for nearly thirty years iirc so memey may be unfair

i subscribed to the nyer in the navy, remembering some awkwardness when this issue came in
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