New Yorker magazine alert thread

Yes, that was ugh.

i am considering writing a disappointed email, is how disappointed i am, right now

I know right! I couldn't even get through it.

I did enjoy the unintentional irony of describing what would commonly be thought of as "people skills" or "intuition" or "emotional intelligence" in ridiculously labored and aspergerian terms.

The psychoanalysis in China article is kind of disappointing imo, mostly because it seems to say that it'll explain why a) psychoanalysis fell out of a favor in the US and most other Western nations, and b) why China then picked it up. The article gets at b) at a certain superficial level, but really doesn't go into a) (which I'm sure has been the subject of a lot of other articles, just would've liked discussion here). Anyway, one of my prof is mentioned in the article, easily the best part of it.

― nomar little (Leee), Monday, January 10, 2011 7:21 PM Bookmark

Agree with this. Started to raise some interesting implications about what psychoanalysis could mean for China as well, but then wastes way too much ink on here-and-now descriptions of various conferences and meetings, which new yorker writers love to bore us with.

freud/china piece nakh http://pastie.org/1460821

The David Brooks article was so poor that I kept double checking to see if it was in fact fiction and supposed to be ironic. Or, failing that, if it was nonfiction and supposed to be a parody.

I knew the Brooks article would settle the argument.

I had trouble just imagining people named Harold and Erica being the same age.

that article was not about people it was abt the Composure Class (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Empty Factoids)

omg that brooks article guys

unacceptable

i saw the name and sort of hoped it was a different david brooks and after about two sentences i was like DX

Page 1 of 6?

forget it

Reading Jon Lee Anderson's recent article about Sri Lanka. I'm so curious what his personality is like, as far as how he behaves in a room with dictators and drug lords and everyone else he commiserates with as a reporter. (His article on Rio gangs from last year is terrific, too.)

I'm sure he tries really hard not to say anything offensive.

JL Anderson is great.

That's the thing -- I'm just really curious about what his manners and body language are like when he's sitting with legitimately paranoid, genuine killers.

(His article on Rio gangs from last year is terrific, too.)

loved this^^. favorite thing I read last year aside from maybe the Sibera travelogue (or was that 09?)

International subscriber so always about a week behind. That Brooks piece was such a bore, and added up to nothing as far as I could tell. Seemed like the editors took the day off when that made it onto the page.

I would like to add my ire about the piece of shit that was that Brooks thing.

All the action's over on the Brooks thread, it seems. Cloudberry!

New Yorker evidently messed up the John Lurie article. Have a look at the blog:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/08/video-john-lurie-the-drawing-show.html

Well, clearly Lurie's close friends and supporters didn't like it!

I got one par into the David Brooks article before I flipped to the Sri Lanka one.

Anyway, Jill Lepore on constitutional "originalism" is must-read: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore

just got her book, whites of their eyes.

Dan, have you read the Lepore book yet? What do you think?

Another great one:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_gawande

I've only read three of Atul Gawande's pieces, but they are all so uniformly excellent. Does he ever write anything not worth reading?

Haven't read it. Have a backlog of books I'll never read from the holidays.

The Gawande articles are getting so much attention. This last one is getting picked up on all the political/progressive blogs as well general interest blogs.

yeah atul's stuff is regularly great

if you are a(n american) sports fan, it's def worth reading ben mcgrath on concussions in football

gawande article on health care is so good, so inspiring in content and as journalism. wow

Definitely, that Gawande article was fantastic. I'm playing catch up on the last few issues and just read that one last night.

btw http://gawande.com/

he is awesome

if you are a(n american) sports fan, it's def worth reading ben mcgrath on concussions in football

― mookieproof, Sunday, January 30, 2011 12:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this one from 2009 is a great read too: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell

finally got my copy of the Jan 10 issue (i run about 3 weeks behind cover dates, being in the middle of the ocean and all. i'll see them on the news stand before my mailbox)

the freud in china thing was awesome but the story about banana scientists and the story about the sadaam statue were even better. gr8 issue

i always run about a month and a half late on the mag.

I used to be great at keeping totally up to date, but lately I've been reading a bunch of random books I got over the holidays so I'm losing my place.

oh i'm basically a year behind on reading.

i just mean when they actually arrive in my mailbox.

is the new yorker better than the NYRB or LRB?

woof!

US: 1 year (47 issues) of The New Yorker for $39.95
UK: 47 issues (one year) for $120

$40 is insane value

NYer is great for original reportage, but the criticism pales next to NY- or LRB

x-ps

it's a totally different kind of thing to either. not really a ranking decision if you want to subscribe to one.

lrb is £12 per year in the uk, but it's monthly.

ta

thought the LRB was fortnightly, tho it might've changed since my sub lapsed

oh you are right, it is fortnightly. £12 is for six months.

i get nyrb, which is $109 for european addresses. if you want a mag with short fiction or plenty of up to date criticism of stuff other than academic books and literary fiction then it is not for you. i just like it's very slow style.

its

i got my first 2 years of NYer for $25/year /braggin

My mother pays for mine!

lol my subscription was also a gift from my mother