New Yorker magazine alert thread

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
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4e/e7/5b/.jpg

why is Kanye so joyously happy to have been defeated by a racist bigot?

he wasn't, do u c

yes. now. good god that's convoluted

It doesn't seem all that bad to me. It's definitely a little "HAHA POLITICS IS A CIRCUS AMIRITE WE ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IRONISTS"

If this is an attempt at a meme couldn't you level that accusation at just about every cover they've ever done?

only post-tina brown

Well you can only do mr monocle and quaint central park scenes so many times, gotta appeal to the younger demographic, btw have they ever done mr monocle with a google glass monocle?

spiegelman's topical covers were better cuz there was some anger behind them and he often seemed motivated to piss ppl off while blitt just kinda tweaks

even now i'm not sure if ware's or tomine's covers are memey as much as they 'comment on this world we live in'

their work is more fine art imo, this is editorial cartoon writ large (literally)

Mr. Monocle!?! That's Eustace Tilley!

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.

feeling this in general but NOT with the linked article, best nyer read in eons

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem

I don't understand one of the cartoons in the latest issue. Will someone please:

1) guess which cartoon it is

2) explain the cartoon to me

http://boingboing.net/2010/03/30/recaptioning-new-yor.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/a-new-universal-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-id-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-linkedin/406783/

The cartoon in question doesn't even have a caption!