i'm enjoying https://buttondown.email/lastweeksnewyorker/archive/
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Saturday, 27 January 2024 21:52 (four months ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:47 (four months ago) link
(oops sorry for double post)
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:48 (four months ago) link
I donāt get the physical mag until thursday most weeks. but obv itās on the website on mondays
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:50 (four months ago) link
Yeah, I just always prefer to read it in print
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:52 (four months ago) link
same. when do you get it? I live in boston so Iāve always thought thursday was a little annoying, itās not like Iām in the middle of nowhere
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:54 (four months ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:11 (four months ago) link
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, 27 January 2024 23:38 (four months ago) link
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.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:53 (four months ago) link
iāve been getting it in the boston area for 10+ years and itās basically always been thursday.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 27 January 2024 23:57 (four months ago) link
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.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:10 (four months ago) link
wild, we never got jt later than Tuesday growing up in Philly
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:38 (four months ago) link
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.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:05 (four months ago) link
I miss it though. A constant in my life nee 1973.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:07 (four months ago) link
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?
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 January 2024 22:02 (four months ago) link
I do need to cut back on my magazine subscriptions because Iāve found itās too easy to justify not reading as many books when you have so many mags to catch up with
thatās why i donāt subscribe to any, tbh!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:47 (four months ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:50 (four months ago) link
About time. Refreshing in the early/mid 1990s, never changed the shtick.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:52 (four months ago) link
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
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:22 (four months ago) link
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).
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:24 (four months ago) link
Anthony Lane is extremely bad and hated by me, what a pseud
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:09 (four months ago) link
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.
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
^^^^Iām slowly devouring this book
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:12 (four months ago) link
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
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:13 (four months ago) link
at least he's a crazy person not just a horny old bore
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:14 (four months ago) link
silly otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:18 (four months ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:27 (four months ago) link
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
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:37 (four months ago) link
heās 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 itās like he can speak the deepest truths, and when I disagree with him I want to throw my phone across the room
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:48 (four months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:52 (four months ago) link
I remember being so mad at his TĆR review lol like you fuckin dipshit did you even watch the movie, dad?
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:55 (four months ago) link
changās good tho Iām glad heāll be in the mag now because I havenāt wanted to pay for the LA times
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:00 (four months ago) link
Favorite movie: Knight of CupsFavorite performance: Amsterdam https://t.co/rJi62t0SHv— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 30, 2024
favorite christian bale movie: knight of cups. sure. Iām a late-malick stan and I mean come on
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:03 (four months ago) link
this Brody review is quite something:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/amsterdam-is-an-exemplary-work-of-resistance-cinema
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:44 (four months ago) link
k3vin otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:49 (four months ago) link
my eyes rolled out of the back of my head at the tweet "Velvet Goldmine Ć©videmment" but it's actually just a french guy lol
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:52 (four months ago) link
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
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:16 (four months ago) link
ā 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.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 12 February 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
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
― na (NA), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:03 (four months ago) link
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
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:18 (four months ago) link
Oh yeah that one was great, I sent it to a few of my writer friends.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:24 (four months ago) link
Yeah, just finished that Keefe article last night, that was terrific.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:25 (four months ago) link
the london underworld story was great, yeah
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Monday, 12 February 2024 22:52 (four months ago) link
Never been able to get past the fact that Anthony Lane is married to fascist nutcase Allison Pearson.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 12 February 2024 23:30 (four months ago) link
ā G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:09 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:47 (four months ago) link
The Reefe story I remember most is that profile of JosƩ AndrƩs.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:41 (four months ago) link
Trying to catch up w/ my subscription so I'm randomly reading articles in issues I've found folded open around the house (under the bed, next to my desk, kitchen counter pile, etc). Came across this story that I didn't see mentioned upthread:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/foster-family-biological-parents-adoption-intervenors
Infuriating story about people can use the foster system as a shadow adoption agency and the monstrously expensive lawyers and other enablers that encourage it.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link