New Yorker magazine alert thread

Among Borowitz’s final pieces for the New Yorker are “George Santos to Spend More Time with Imaginary Family,” “Ivanka Unable to Remember Name of Her Father” and “Clarence Thomas Collapses from Exhaustion After First Full Day of Regulating Himself.”

Oof

i'm enjoying https://buttondown.email/lastweeksnewyorker/archive/

Me too. I had a comment published a couple of weeks ago, setting Sam straight on the difference between "passion fruit" (noun) and "passion-fruit" adjective.

Often the newsletter shows up in my inbox before I've even gotten the magazine in the mail, which at first bothered me, but now I kind of like that it functions as a preview of what I have to look forward to.

Me too. I had a comment published a couple of weeks ago, setting Sam straight on the difference between "passion fruit" (noun) and "passion-fruit" adjective.

Often the newsletter shows up in my inbox before I've even gotten the magazine in the mail, which at first bothered me, but now I kind of like that it functions as a preview of what I have to look forward to.

(oops sorry for double post)

I don’t get the physical mag until thursday most weeks. but obv it’s on the website on mondays

Yeah, I just always prefer to read it in print

same. when do you get it? I live in boston so I’ve always thought thursday was a little annoying, it’s not like I’m in the middle of nowhere

These days I don't check the mailbox every day, so I'm not totally sure, but Thursday or Friday has been more or less standard for the 20+ years I've subscribed. I'm in Chicago.

The D.T. Max piece on the woman who lived in a cave for 500 days is exactly what I want out of the New Yorker.

I have subscribed to the print magazine (or been in a household that did so) for 50-mumble years. I don't keep strict track, but its arrival dates seem pretty close to random.

i’ve been getting it in the boston area for 10+ years and it’s basically always been thursday.

Boston is reasonably close to New York (in national and global terms).

Missouri and Virginia, not so much. I don't mind, as I also have the online access.

wild, we never got jt later than Tuesday growing up in Philly

The kindle version was axed in the fall. I have not re-uped for print (yet). In PA, NC, TX, DC, it always hit the mailbox on Monday.

In the meantime, I am reading more books, with less NYer to compete for reading time.

I miss it though. A constant in my life nee 1973.

The kindle version was axed in the fall. I have not re-uped for print (yet). In PA, NC, TX, DC, it always hit the mailbox on Monday.

^^^monday the week of, or a week later?

I do need to cut back on my magazine subscriptions because I’ve found it’s too easy to justify not reading as many books when you have so many mags to catch up with

that’s why i don’t subscribe to any, tbh!

So Anthony Lane is kind of being put out to pasture and they're bringing in Justin Chang as a film critic. Probably a good thing? I mostly know Chang from hearing him on NPR, I don't read the L.A. Times, but he seems like he might have more interesting thoughts about movies than Lane.

About time. Refreshing in the early/mid 1990s, never changed the shtick.

and enlightened in working with Anthony Lane for many years; he modestly wraps his vast erudition and intellectual ardor in singularly graceful prose; to know him is to be amazed by him, and I'm delighted that we'll still be working together, even if differently.

— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 30, 2024

I've always found it kind of unfair that Brody never gets published in the magazine apart from capsule reviews in Goings On About Town (which now means essentially never).

Anthony Lane is extremely bad and hated by me, what a pseud

on the other end of the spectrum I read Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light last year and my god what an incredible body of work Peter Schjeldahl had. Incredible writing.

^^^^
I’m slowly devouring this book

Richard Brody gets on my nerves most of the time, but it seems like he should get to handle the back of the book movie reviews at least some of the time

at least he's a crazy person not just a horny old bore

silly otm

About Peter Schjeldahl

Seems like Lane is going the John Lahr/Emily Nussbaum route, where they're still on staff but publish like one feature a year.

Brody's a lunatic but remains one of my favorite critics to read, he's never boring at least. I didnt realize he was hardly ever in the print mag, that is indeed weird

he’s amazing, he brings a genuine open-mindedness and sensitivity to his viewings, and an authentic iconoclasm without ever slipping into buffoonery; when I agree with him it’s like he can speak the deepest truths, and when I disagree with him I want to throw my phone across the room

Some friends of mine, I noticed almost every time they got burned watching some movie they didn't like, it's almost always based on a Brody rave, lol. The Rosenbaum is strong in that guy.

I remember being so mad at his TÁR review lol like you fuckin dipshit did you even watch the movie, dad?

chang’s good tho I’m glad he’ll be in the mag now because I haven’t wanted to pay for the LA times

Favorite movie: Knight of Cups
Favorite performance: Amsterdam https://t.co/rJi62t0SHv

— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 30, 2024

favorite christian bale movie: knight of cups. sure. I’m a late-malick stan and I mean come on

this Brody review is quite something:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/amsterdam-is-an-exemplary-work-of-resistance-cinema

k3vin otm

my eyes rolled out of the back of my head at the tweet "Velvet Goldmine évidemment" but it's actually just a french guy lol

I remember being so mad at his TÁR review lol like you fuckin dipshit did you even watch the movie, dad?

lol yeah that one was a true embarrassment. his furious takedown of Anatomy of a Fall hit many of the same notes, just putting a heroic amount of effort into completely missing some v basic points

The D.T. Max piece on the woman who lived in a cave for 500 days is exactly what I want out of the New Yorker.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, January 27, 2024 5:38 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

The one about the London kid who pretended to be the son of a Russian oligarch and got mixed up with actual shady children of criminals and (and their dangerous underworld associates) is also exactly what I want out of the New Yorker.

yes that one was great. i referenced it offhandedly in therapy today (because i too am impersonating a russian oligarch) and my therapist had read the same article and knew what i was referencing

the two patrick radden reefe books i've read (empire of pain and say nothing) were both excellent

there was also a patrick radden keefe piece a few issues back about screenwriting that was excellent, which he was apparently reporting/writing at the same time as this article about the british kid. he's a really good journalist

Oh yeah that one was great, I sent it to a few of my writer friends.

Yeah, just finished that Keefe article last night, that was terrific.

the london underworld story was great, yeah

Never been able to get past the fact that Anthony Lane is married to fascist nutcase Allison Pearson.

Anthony Lane is extremely bad and hated by me, what a pseud

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:09 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^

The Reefe story I remember most is that profile of José Andrés.