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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 06, 2024, 09:52:55 pm ---I guess I can skip anything that has to do with the election. :-\
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I know, isn't that great? I can close a bunch of open tabs on my laptop and go through my stack of New Yorkers tossing evrything outdated. I also love going through my stack of New Yorkers after a new administration starts because I figure I can toss anything from the previous administration.
So there's at least one (tiny) silver lining.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 16, 2024, 12:13:12 pm ---In the post-election coverage, I liked George Saunders's "thought exercises" best. Jill LePore's piece was good too.
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I enjoyed the article on Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, too.
Jeff Wrangler:
I enjoyed the Nov. 11 article about shipwrecks and treasure hunting.
Jeff Wrangler:
Tell you what, sometimes I wish they would be a little more forthcoming in the TOC. There is a good example of what I mean in the TOC of the November 25 issue. Under the Books heading there is a title "'The Icon and the Idealist,' by Stephanie Gorton." Nothing there would tempt me to read that article. I turned to it only because it's by Margaret Talbot, and I usually read her. Turns out the book is about Margaret Sanger and another woman I'd never heard of who fought to make contraception available in the U.S. I haven't read the article yet, but it looks like it might be interesting.
Front-Ranger:
I usually don't read the ToC. I just plow right into the issue and read it from front to back. If I'm pressed for time, I might look at the ToC, but usually it's after I've read the whole issue and I want to go back and refer to something again. I briefly glanced at the Sanger article but skipped over it to get to the critics pages where I usually find at least one interesting article.
The one about the destruction of Gaza and its people was so upsetting I had to put it down and go through my home looking for something calming and hopeful. I found it: my sewing machine draped with a handful of Christmas stockings in various stages of creation.
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