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Captivating “interactive essay” (photos plus commentary from the photographer) on London’s inner-city housing estates. Towards the end there … gulfstream/1900
Artist created McCain/Obama New Yorker cover with Photoshop 3.0 and Macintosh OS 7. (But he must have another machine for email, right?) gulfstream/2533
History of The New Yorker via the recently-released CD anthology. Less than affectionate; attempts to diminish. (e.g. “The New Yorker is the only magazine … gulfstream/2089
The New Yorker will apparently make money this year (i.e. 2002), for the first time since 1985. Experts in magazine finance are unconvinced. … gulfstream/995
The New Yorker has redesigned! Some notes: overall, much cleaner, nicer and more modern (though it does feel a lot like New York Magazine) cartoons … gulfstream/2255
A 1995 review of a collection of Pauline Kael essays. The overall angle seems to be that neither the New Yorker nor Pauline Kael is as good as … gulfstream/1491
“There’s no substantial business today in charging companies money for the privilege of indexing one’s book …” I do so enjoy Cory Doctorow’s … gulfstream/1976
ancestralscotland.com hosts a party to celebrate the opening of their website (which encourages Scottish Americans to visit Scotland); the New Yorker attends. … gulfstream/657
Great, informative, exchange between Valerie Lawson, the author of a book on the creator of Mary Poppins (Pamela Travers) and The New Yorker. … gulfstream/1956
Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. … gulfstream/2180
Rather nice rant about Microsoft Word embedded in this Louis Menand piece about writing, citations, and style guides. (Which reminds me: what’s … gulfstream/1295
The New Yorker is being sued over a story by Jared Diamond, in which he describes a long running feud between New Guinea highlanders. One of the highlanders … gulfstream/2607
The little Virgina Quarterly Review scored six nominations in the National Magazine Awards (only the Atlantic got more). “What makes VQR distinctive … gulfstream/2028
Great interview with Anthony Lane, movie critic for the New Yorker. “I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards … gulfstream/1371
“The New Yorker Goes to War.” The subtitle—“How a Nice Magazine Talked Itself Into Backing Bush’s Jihad”—neatly captures the … gulfstream/1162
NYT fusses over cute New Yorker cover gulfstream/606
Obituary for The New Yorker’s one-time Grammarian, Eleanor Gould. “Miss Gould once found what she believed were four grammatical errors in … gulfstream/1694
Malcolm Gladwell, curiously covering much the same ground that another New Yorker writer (Brendan Gill) did in his book Late Bloomers. gulfstream/2536
Journalists from The New Yorker, thoughtful individuals that they are, attempt to arrange a meeting with the famously reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman: … gulfstream/2150
Fifty-year-old Bill Buford—former editor of Granta, and former literary editor of The New Yorker—recently spent two years working in various New York … gulfstream/2123
Portfolio site of the designer of Shopsin’s website, the legendary Greenwich village restaurant profiled by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker. gulfstream/2328
New Yorker article on the ethics and economics of AIDS research. This is blurbed as being on whether it’s appropriate to subject AIDS research … gulfstream/1117
Every page of the New Yorker on 8 (!) DVDs. If the search function is good, this might be worth getting. (Seems like the search is not full-text.) … gulfstream/1765
Are good fund managers simply lucky fund managers? About stocks, Nassim Taleb is sure of only one thing: that the probability of exceptional events—S11, … gulfstream/805
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When it ["voice", one of writing's "immaterial properties"] does appear, the subject is often irrelevant. “I do not care for movies very much and I … fortune
Design notes from the _Florida Times-Union_: Books: These are great to fill empty wall units. Designers keep stacks of these on reserve for this purpose. … fortune
As a newcomer of a slightly later period, John Bainbridge was as astonished as I by the coldness he encountered at the magazine. A Middle Westerner, … fortune
I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards is tacky. It has to go through three or four proofs. The fact-checkers proof; the … fortune
Moore can't resist amusing his campus and conspiracy-nut following, along with the gleeful sophomore in all of us, but, as the man said, when you aim … fortune
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening you didn't have in the morning. -- Frederic Raphael, co-screenwriter of "Eyes Wide … fortune
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. … fortune
[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English; once, when … fortune
Over the decades, filibusters have done far more harm than good. In “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Jimmy Stewart used one to save his Boy Rangers … fortune
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. -- James Thurber, The New Yorker, March 27, 1937 … fortune
I never meet my subject matter. It's one of the advantages of living in Britain, a curious arrangement that has worked very well. Sometimes I go over … fortune
Moore can't resist amusing his campus and conspiracy-nut following, along with the gleeful sophomore in all of us, but, as the man said, when you aim … fortune
The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures … fortune
It is worth noting, as well, that in the original coffeehouses nearly everyone smoked, and nicotine also has a distinctive physiological effect. It moderates … fortune
The forced resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, following her suggestion that masturbation was "part of something that perhaps should be taught," … fortune
It was so hot in the club that it was difficult to breathe, but Puffy was still wearing his suit, and not one button was undone. His tie was so tightly … fortune
Tell Guiterman he not only go the statue cleaned up but the word `hell' in the _New York Times_, which is a much greater accomplishment. -- from a memo … fortune
Almost as soon as I had sent off a poem to The New Yorker, it would be back in our mailbox in Berlin. The postal service was, of course, incomparably … fortune
Abe Hirschfeld, a publicity-seeking septuagenarian parking-lot mogul with a dialect-joke Yiddish accent and a penchant for pointless runs for public office. -- … fortune
"Silent Spring" was concerned principally with the indiscriminate use of DDT for agricultural purposes; in the nineteen-fifties, it was being sprayed … fortune
Highbrows and lowbrows "get" Roseanne; it's the militant lowbrows who deplore her, even if they've never bothered to watch her show. -- James Wolcott, … fortune
Even Keanu Reeves, bless him, played his part with a stolidity that made him the only possible hero of the film, so slow in his reactions that he seemed … fortune
When I visited Breyer in Cambridge, there was a tidy pile of children's toys on the living-room floor, the residue of a recent visit by his oldest grandchild. … fortune
In 1999, a hundred and twenty thousand books were published in the United States--that's about fourteen per hour, which is a lot, especially when there's … fortune
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How Paul Krugman found politics : The New Yorker
Why cable companies bundle their channels : The New Yorker
"Bundling eliminates the problem of fretting about small expenditures, which may be one reason that flat-rate pricing is very common in the vacation industry (cruise ships, all-inclusive travel packages, and so on). It also offers what economists call option value: you may never watch those sixty other channels, but the fact that you could if you wanted to is worth something. Many consumers also perceive bundles as bargains; getting a bunch of things for one price feels like a deal, even when it’s not."
John Mackey and Whole Foods : The New Yorker
"Whole Foods’ claim to righteousness is, in many respects, its unique selling point. If the mission is sincere, so is the commitment to making money. Mackey is adamant, and not merely unapologetic, that his company—any company—can and should pursue profits and a higher purpose simultaneously, and that in fact the pursuit of both enhances the pursuit of each. “Whole Foods itself is a market-based solution,” he said. “We’re a corporation. We are in capitalism. We have to compete with Safeway and Wal-Mart and Kroger and Wegmans and Trader Joe’s. What’s odd about it is that that’s what we’ve always been. We’re not a co-op.”"
John Seabrook on Zaha Hadid’s new building in Rome: Audio Slide Show : The New Yorker
Audio slideshow on Zaha Hadid, and her new MAXXI gallery in Rome.
Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya : The New Yorker
"Unfortunately for I.A.A.F. officials, they are faced with a question that no one has ever been able to answer: what is the ultimate difference between a man and a woman? “This is not a solvable problem,” Alice Dreger said. “People always press me: ‘Isn’t there one marker we can use?’ No. We couldn’t then and we can’t now, and science is making it more difficult and not less, because it ends up showing us how much blending there is and how many nuances, and it becomes impossible to point to one thing, or even a set of things, and say that’s what it means to be male."
Copy Editing at The New Yorker Magazine. An Interview With Mary Norris ...
"This doesn’t come up often, and but it is odd to have someone simply refuse to spell a word right because he thinks it looks funny. It’s almost admirable."
Atul Gawande: surgeon, health-policy scholar, and writer | Harvard Magazine September-October 2009
profile of atul gawande.
Totally Wired: Sasha Frere-Jones: Online Only: The New Yorker
Profiles: The Conciliator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Annals of Medicine: The Checklist: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Annals of Technology: Damn Spam: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
new yorker cartoon: jihad smiley face
“I just think it undermines our organization’s fiery rhetoric when you close your Internet postings with a smiley face.” (newyorker, October 16, 2006)
Sticks and Stones Dept.: Your Name Here: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
Independent Online Edition > Media
tad friend on sarah silverman in the new yorker
OPEN SECRETS - Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information.
gladwell: the complexity of enron's dealings were as much responsible for the way in which they went undetected for so long, as much as executives' lying
string theory
good explanation of the string theory deal
village voice > news > The Rejection Connection by Dan Schulman
The New Criterion — Tales from the crypt
history of the new yorker via a review of the cd anthology; attempts to diminish it
Joseph Mitchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
for the last 30 years of his life, joseph mitchell went every day to his office at the new yorker, but published nothing
The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema
The New Yorker keeps its high-culture credentials intact: "Should we mind that forty million readers—or, to use the technical term, 'lemmings'—have followed one another over the cliff of this long and laughable text?"
The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
Haaretz - Israel News - How to put a legendary magazine back on its feet
The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
"Many of the objects that we think of as archetypally Shaker—the long oval boxes with their lovely triple folds, the clean brooms and chairs—were designed and made largely for outside sale."
The New Yorker: PRINTABLES roald dahl
The New Yorker: The Critics: The Sky Line
architect is Rocio Romero, house is called Laguna Verde
Tinotopia: The Complete New Yorker