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Front-Ranger:
Two articles I liked in the July 23 issue are "Delivering Modernity" by Jiayang Fan and "Drunk History" by Emily Nussbaum. The first article talks about the Amazon-like company that's bringing goods to rural China, sometimes by drone. "Drunk History" covers a new television show on Comedy Central that involves drunk people explaining the news.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 24, 2018, 10:45:46 am ---Two articles I liked in the July 23 issue are "Delivering Modernity" by Jiayang Fan and "Drunk History" by Emily Nussbaum. The first article talks about the Amazon-like company that's bringing goods to rural China, sometimes by drone. "Drunk History" covers a new television show on Comedy Central that involves drunk people explaining the news.
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I've seen a few shortish episodes of "Drunk History" that people have posted online. They're pretty funny. I always wonder if the celebrities are actually drunk. Did Emily say?
Front-Ranger:
She seemed to think they were.
Now, I'm into the article about rental families in the April 30 issue by Elif Batuman. Imagine people renting relatives for their wedding. Now imagine women renting a fake groom because their parents are pressuring them into getting married. A fake wedding costs the equivalent of $47,000. :o
Front-Ranger:
Reviewing the July 30 issue, I wonder if TNY post-dates its issues to give readers a sense of being ahead of things? :laugh:
Evan Osnos reviewed Trump's Helsinki debacle and Sam Knight reviewed his trip to London. The former was more insightful. Sam Knight also went into Brexit and Theresa May, how she came to power and what makes her tick. Except that the over-long article really didn't say anything new and didn't come to any conclusions.
Shouts & Murmurs on Elon Musk was actually funny for a change. Also very funny was Anthony Lane's review of the new Mamma Mia movie.
There were three book reviews, all very good, but I struggled to follow the utopian one. T. Coraghessan Boyle's "I Walk Between the Raindrops" was quite readable as yet another straight man going through mid-life angst. But I don't know as it had any major insights. He seemed to be overreaching for material.
Zadie Smith also seemed to be overreaching in her review of the artist Henry Taylor.
Jeff Wrangler:
I am way behind, even for me. There are just so many interesting things to read in the July 30 and August 6-13 issues.
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