After several weeks in which I failed to get much interested in my weekly issues of TNY, I really enjoyed the latest issue, March 29, especially the graphics and photos, but several of the articles as well. I recommend you take a look at:
A beautiful photograph by Viviane Sassen on page 26 of a man with a small child (his son?) on his head and a lovely painting of an Amish (?) girl by Richard Wathen on page 32. A great short article on bats in Vermont and one on the trials of our boy Rufus Wainwright. (His dad Louden also is featured on TNY website singing about economist Paul Krugman, Jeff.) optom might find "Four Eyes" interesting, and
I even liked a poem (I usually bypass them),
Titian Vs. Roadrunner by Dan Chiasson, on page 55.
Judith Thurman is her usual witty self, this time writing about wrinkles.
It's the style issue, so there is a wonderful portrait of the late Alexander McQueen and his iconic Armadillo shoe.
I haven't read the fiction yet. It's by Joyce Carol Oates, whose work I rarely like. But the illustrations are great.
But most of all, check out
Fixed Couples, not to read about marriage therapy, which it is ostensibly about, but to understand the roots of the Eugenics movement which has spawned a lot of disguised homophobia, racism, elitism, and other forms of discrimination. I was shocked at the actions of Paul Popenoe, who was not a doctor or psychiatrist but who nevertheless influenced lawmakers and presidents enough to make forced sterilization a reality in the U.S. during the '20s and '30s.
Online, Hendrick Herzberg discusses the Republicans' latest misstep that led to their (not President Obama's)
Waterloo, in the health care bill debate.