New Yorker magazine alert thread

so embarrassing, like being naked in front of a bunch of people, soft shoulders and toned body in full display??

are you... are you watching me right now?

listen i just love film

i've been really enjoying the recent spate of hipster takedown articles lately: the emotional-support animal one, specter's pieces on GMOs and gluten intolerance. nicely sums up most of what i hate about vermont

although the food issue had an advertisement for an "integrative cancer center" so there's that

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/double-jeopardy-3

this was a fantastic piece of reporting. the judge's justifications at the very end almost made me physically ill

osnos: i shall build this profile of samantha power around the theme of her astounding height

fact-checker: 5'9" is above average but hardly unusual

osnos: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes but over 6' when wearing heels

o shiii

I also like how they found room to add a paragraph describing the horny French diplomat's feelings

in france we do not have zis . . . politique correctness, oui?

We do not know of zee appropriate way to live!

*squeezes ze airboobs*

Who knew that New Zealand had a mammal problem?

Not I.

Me neither! Grim but fascinating.

*squeezes ze airboobs*

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my new favorite thing

"People have hoity-toity reasons for preferring one kind of entertainment to another," he said later. "To me, it doesn't matter whether you're looking at cat photos that inspire you or so-called 'high art' that inspires you."

that is so generous of him

i mean, it really sets my mind at ease

wau that guy

The most amazing thing about the New Zealand mammal problem a few weeks back is that I can't buy a t-shirt with this on it: http://www.rimutakatrust.org.nz/images/pfnz..png

My god @ the viral king and his horrible father who made him listen to Tony Robbins while being home-schooled.

I do appreciate the NYer profiles were you can tell the author is filled with disdain for the subject.

lol that the "biographies" his parents had him read were all one page long

Whoa: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/pop-music-critic-leaves-the-new-yorker-to-annotate-lyrics-for-a-start-up.html

Sasha Frere-Jones leaving the building for more money and better hours, it appears

How dare he.

Seriously, though, has the guy ever written a NYorker piece that was either persuasive or perceptive? I liked his recent Eno profile, and sometimes he does a good job describing something, but mostly his essays are just a bunch of background setup, and then at the end he sticks in a graf about the album in question.

Fortunately, there are so many music writers out there with nothing to do, or not as much as they should be doing, that they should have no problem finding a replacement. Though at the same time it would be nice if they just tossed Christgau in the ring again.

RIP ABQ: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/son-deceased

found the batuman piece very moving

i am in an unprecedented unsubscribed phase, right now, & worse still have temporarily transferred my attention to harper's; what else was good lately?

So is there no successor to Sasha Frere-Jones on the pop music beat? Online I see one piece by Hua Hsu on Future Brown and one by K. Sanneh on Waxahatchie.

i think they're still figuring it out.

probably still in negotiations with DeRogatis

oh god

So is there no successor to Sasha Frere-Jones on the pop music beat? Online I see one piece by Hua Hsu on Future Brown and one by K. Sanneh on Waxahatchie.

― curmudgeon, Monday, March 30, 2015 2:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

from what i've heard hsu is, like, "trying out" for the position or something... i don't think it was a one-off piece

And K. preceded SFJ and graduated to bigger things, so likely not moving back to that position.

he wrote about pop music for the nyt, not the new yorker

oh god

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That snooker piece was great

i'm an issue (two?) behind, but the seymour hersh return to my lai was brutal/very good

Yeah that whole issue was pretty strong

Xpost crap, that's right, though I could have sworn Sanneh was writing for the times and the New Yorker at the same time for a while. Getting old, memory going.

yea i was into the snooker article

i'm an issue (two?) behind, but the seymour hersh return to my lai was brutal/very good

― horseshoe

My favorite piece of the year. He wrung no emotion out of it: he told the story.

i think menand broke the record for most sets of parentheses in a 3-page story

A rare Sy sighting! Heavy story but really good. NOW GET BACK TO THAT DICK CHENEY VP BOOK BRO

Weird having no back-of-the book movie review section. This is the future, I guess.

Emily Nussbaum >>>>> whoever the other The Critics are tbh

The patient's head would be sawed open under local anesthetic. Fully conscious, the patient would be shown flashcards with words or pictures while the electrodes recorded which regions responded to the stimuli. ... Sometimes, a picture of a particular celebrity would cause a single neuron to become especially active. Similar observations led scientists in a later study to posit the existence in one patient of a "Halle Berry neuron."

i was going to complain about franzen's garbage story in this week's issue but i'll just point to this instead:

http://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-climate-change-but-then-lots-of-people-are/

as David Roberts says, "I can’t imagine The New Yorker publishing it under any other byline."

seriously, one glance at it by elizabeth kolbert would have kept it from publication

i'm two pages into the Franzen story, unsure if i wanna proceed

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assuming that was supposed to be champagne and was a massive typo

I would drink any champagne Warren made imo.