New Yorker magazine alert thread

the china selfie meitu app article in this weeks is m/l terrifying

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/my-fathers-body-at-rest-and-in-motion

Enjoyed this piece quite a bit. Something about the calm tone that makes it a warm bath to ease into, despite the subject matter.

tw suicide

good piece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers

That Mukherjee piece is great. Thanks. xp

The Osnos piece on China.

enjoyed that — my first attempt at an audio article!

The article on the brain-dead girl is grim and unsettling, but in an engrossing way.

yeah I have that bookmarked, looking forward to reading

New Grann alert

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness

A nice long Grann survivalists-in-harsh-conditions story is just a balm for my soul.

the accompanying images and maps are really amazing

The Grann piece was fun but he did not read as a hero or explorer to me, just a dude doing exactly what he wanted to do for his own ego (lol @ the idea that he was actually making that last expedition to raise $100k for charity) and making bad decisions. It made me really relish being indoors though.

i didn't love the grann piece tbh, it was boring and overlong. mostly i enjoyed the details about the sick shit that happens to your mind and body in that situation.

Yeah it was Lost City of Z but cold and less interesting, more pointless.

Happened to read an essay about hypothermia a couple of days after reading this. was better.

Loved Jill Lepore on Mary W Shelley

Yo yeah me too.

I wanna read Muriel spark Shelley bio now

It's very good.

I'm still reading the Grann piece but it starts off on the wrong foot immediately:

There were no living creatures in sight. Not a bear or even a bird. Nothing but him.

Antarctica has no bears -- polar bears are native to the Arctic (they're not going to traverse the equator not to mention the thousands of miles separating the poles).

yeah that's why they weren't in sight, duh

no hippos either

Or reticulated tarsiers

^ that’s not even a real animal, not sure how i ended up putting those words together

https://www.newyorker.com/crossword/puzzles-dept/introducing-the-new-yorker-crossword-puzzle

well, there's a new yorker puzzle now. hope you all enjoyed getting work done

Peter Hessler's article about his cat Morsi and Cairo expat life was quite enjoyable:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/cairo-a-type-of-love-story

well this is a half baked article but the topic is interesting https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom

just read & enjoyed the ben marcus short story a few issues back

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/is-don-wagyus-steak-sandwich-worth-the-hundred-and-eighty-dollar-price-tag

"Yesterday, some stockbrokers ordered them for the floor"

and snorted them

Can’t fathom a justification for this. He isn’t in government. He isn’t leading a fringe website anymore. He isn’t interesting. He’s a crank who’s trying (and since Trump, largely failing) to get majority white countries to elect bigots. https://t.co/Qz0NxumU9t

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 3, 2018

they disinvited him, but wtf

https://festival.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Adam-Schiff-DefaultWP.jpg

FRI, OCT. 5 | 10:00 PM | 90 MINUTES
The Borowitz Report Live with Adam Schiff
Andy Borowitz brings his popular column to life onstage. Featuring the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff.

“popular” my ass

i think andy borowitz should be killed

― miss me belial (crüt), Friday, December 18, 2015

Tough but fair.

A statement from David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, explaining his decision to no longer include Steve Bannon in the 2018 New Yorker Festival. pic.twitter.com/opayiw5GQ2

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 3, 2018

hilariously predictable

I call my vagina "New Yorker cartoon" because it's dry and a handful of people have laughed at it

— Megan Amram (@meganamram) October 16, 2016

I am not gonna bother to zoom in to whatever David Remnick wrote in his PJs just now I’m sure it’s not a big deal

it's about what you'd expect. remnick is a very intelligent guy and i like his writing. he is a person who can listen to a viewpoint that is opposite of his own and learn from it. he makes the mistake of thinking that everyone else is like that and failed to see that he was just handing free publicity to a racist creep.

This seems like an attempt to veer into the Aspen Ideas lane that ended in flipping the car.

Remnick's mea culpa is well written but poorly reasoned, since it never really justifies inviting Bannon to be interviewed in the first place. It was allegedly done in a somewhat sneaky manner, without staff or venue or anyone knowing, and the fact that Bannon was announced as a sort of a big surprise headliner shows Remnick at least thought he was some big get. But even objectively speaking I am not sure what wisdom can be gleaned from Bannon gloating at this point.

Remnick at least thought he was some big get.

Aye, he's not wrong la </scouse>

Bannon is a big get like gonorrhea is a big get.

worth remembering that milo was just the other day weeping on facebook about how his being deplatformed everywhere had ruined his life

deplatforming works, folks

keep this gelatinous bag of pickled organs off the national stage

I've a hard time explaining to excellent reporters over, say, forty, why it's not a good idea to give fourth-rate Robert E. Lee-boning grifters like Steve Bannon a means to express themselves. Many of them have a deep attachment to the theory that only by exposing the imbecility of Bannons do you perform a public service. Had Bannon been installed as a university president, I'd say he's worth a story. But he's a nothing now. I have trouble coming up with anything more persuasive than what I just wrote, so if anyone has ideas about confronting colleagues and reporters I'm open. About the only thing I can come up with is, "What will you learn that you haven't already?"

I like the framing I saw on Twitter: had it gone through, Remnick would have been interviewing, but Bannon would have been recruiting. That's the part Remnick doesn't get, and never will.

otm xp

also, will anyone anywhere be moved to change their opinion on bannon after the fearless editor of the New Yorker runs him through with his gleaming sword of FACTS and LOGIC