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Raking Dirt for Art’s Sake
“Just to get it back to this moist state is gratifying to me, because this is the state that I relate to, that I maintained for decades,” Dilworth, who had the knee-high rubber boots of a farmer, the trim-cut jeans of an urbanite, and the eyebrows of a mad scientist, said. He has spent the past thirty-four years caring for “The New York Earth Room,” an installation by the artist Walter De Maria which is part of the Dia Art Foundation’s permanent collection.
Midterms: The Quiz
In this week’s issue of the magazine, Hendrik Hertzberg writes about the upcoming “recession election.” You can test your knowledge of the gaffes, controversies, and surprises of this year’s campaigns with the quiz below. And try our earlier quizzes on the Supreme Court, Winston Churchill, Facebook, and more. See more of The New Yorker’s coverage of the midterm elections.
Our Coverage of Anthony Weiner
His Twitter account was not hacked, that was his underwear, his wife is pregnant, and he has resigned. Read our coverage of what Twitter has, predictably, dubbed Weinergate. In the June 27, 2011, issue of the magazine, Margaret Talbot reflects on sex, politics, and why Anthony Weiner resigned. Previously, on the blogs: Richard Brody: Is a philanderer today any different from a philanderer ten or twenty or thirty years ago? Lauren Collins: Nobody wants to see this stuff.
What's aerial wolf gunning, and why does vice presidential Sarah Palin support the practice?
What is it, and why does vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin support the practice? Wolves Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and John McCain’s vice presidential pick, is an enthusiastic hunter who has proposed legislation and cash incentives to encourage aerial wolf gunning, the controversial practice of shooting wolves from an aircraft. Do people in Alaska really shoot wolves from planes? Yes, but only with the government’s permission.
To-Do List: WikiLeaks, North Korea, and Raw Milk
To know: WikiLeaks released ninety-two thousand classified military documents describing the war in Afghanistan from January, 2004, to December, 2009. The documents indicate that the Pakistani intelligence agency supported Afghan insurgency groups that attacked American soldiers in Afghanistan. If the WikiLeaks site is down, you can read selected dispatches at the New York Times, which, along with the Guardian and the German magazine Der Spiegel, had advance access to the documents.
Army Arrests Alleged WikiLeaks Leaker
Never trust a hacker. According to Wired.com’s Threat Level blog, Bradley Manning, a twenty-two-year-old Army intelligence officer, sought out the confidence of a former computer hacker, Adrian Lamo, and confessed—or, perhaps more accurately, bragged—to him that he had sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Among them: the helicopter video that was at the center of Raffi Khatchadourian’s article in the magazine last week about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Master of Leaks
A digest of last week’s prophetic and interpretive thought “In both cases, what started out as voluntary sex subsequently developed into an assault. The other woman wanted to report rape.” —“Woman A” “He paid more attention to the computer than to me.” —“Woman B” “I have never, in Sweden nor in any other country, had sex with anyone in a way that was not totally consensual….
To-Do List: Gingrich Suspended, Whoopie Pies Disputed, Jews Off the Hook
[#image: /photos/590954ea019dfc3494e9ea73] To know: The Obama Administration is tempering its talk about possible military intervention in Libya. Hockey players may also be at risk for the degenerative brain disease that has been identified in deceased football players, according to an analysis of the brain tissue of hockey legend Bob Probert.
To-Do List: The “Creepy Lovesick E-mails” Edition
[#image: /photos/590954ea019dfc3494e9ea73] To know: Congress passed a bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels and benefits for the long-term unemployed. The Senate will vote on the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell as early as Saturday, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid. The sixty-five-million-dollar “Spider-Man” Broadway show has postponed its opening for the fourth time, Newsday reports.
What a Week: Hard Hitting
[#image: /photos/590954dd1c7a8e33fb38b3aa] This week’s headlines were light on the mob bosses and the sex scandals, and heavy with deficit talks and health-care rulings, so if your eyes glazed over a few times and you have trouble with this week’s quiz, don’t beat yourself up. I would make fun of the average score last week—fifty-seven per cent—but eight out of ten of you nailed the “Know Your New Yorker” question, and let’s be honest, that’s the score that really counts. TAKE THE QUIZ.
And the Pulitzers Go To…
This year’s Pulitzer Prize awards have been announced. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times each got two. ProPublica won its second—the first Pulitzer to go to a collection of stories not published in print. No prize was awarded for breaking news (the Post came closest, for breaking-news photography). Also missing from the winners circle: any coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the Letters, Drama, and Music column, “Washington: A Life,” by Ron Chernow, was among the winners.
Ahmadinejad: The Quiz
In this week’s issue of the magazine, Jon Lee Anderson talks to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . You can test your knowledge of the Iranian President with the quiz below. Make sure to fill in the “essay portion” at the end. We’ll run the best responses with next week’s quiz.
The Jeremy Lin Design Winner
Alex Medina, the readers’ pick in our Jeremy Lin design competition, wasn’t always a Knicks fan. Although he grew up in Washington Heights, Medina spent his childhood rooting for the Chicago Bulls and more recently jumped ship for the Miami Heat. It was all about Jordan, then all about LeBron. And now, it’s all about Lin. “I like to say I don’t follow corporations, I follow players,” he told me.
Races to Watch - The New Yorker
Here are the fourteen Senate races we’re watching closely. We will update with the winners after the votes are counted by turning the state name red or blue—or, if the Alaska race demands it, a write-in color. Alaska: Lisa Murkowski, the Republican incumbent, has a chance to be the first senator to win as a write-in candidate since Strom Thurmond in 1954. She’s up against the Democrat Scott McAdams and the Republican Joe Miller.
How to Join Our Podcast Club
April 5, 2017 It’s easy to become a radio listener. You switch it on and turn the dial until you find something interesting. Done. Podcast listening can be harder to crack. There are so many shows! How do you find the ones you’ll like? And once you’ve found a show, where do you start: with the most recent episode? At the beginning? Some specific gem of an episode buried deep in the back catalog?
Eight Voicemails from My Grandmother, Who Is Very Upset About the Apparent Death of My Career
This weekend marked the end of the the New York Times Magazine’s Meh List, a feature for which I have been the chief columnist for the last two years. Writing The Meh List takes up approximately five minutes of my week. (My real job is as the magazine’s digital editor.) But The Meh List is in print. The Meh List has my byline. Therefore, for the purposes of my ninety-year-old grandmother, The Meh List was my job.
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Shifts the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Brings together some of the world's most productive creative visionaries and leading researchers. A team of passionate community-builders on a mission to educate and connect the next generation of social entrepreneurs and changemakers creating bold, innovative social impact. Tech-free summer camp for adults where grownups go to unplug, get away and be kids again.
Would an Emoticon Have Taken Eight Years?
Video transcript transcript Saying ‘I Love You,’ With Some Help After eight years in a serious relationship, Maia Leppo and Alex Kobzik had still not said “I love you.” So a filmmaker stepped in. n/a After eight years in a serious relationship, Maia Leppo and Alex Kobzik had still not said “I love you.” So a filmmaker stepped in.Credit Feb.
An oral history of ‘The Meh List’
The New York Times Magazine’s One-Page Magazine is no more, and with it goes the Meh List, a weekly tabulation of things that are “Not Hot, Not Not, Just Meh.” Recently in meh: B.J. Surhoff (Sept. 21). Book trailers (Sept. 7). The Meh List (Sept. 28). One time the list declared pizza meh, remember that? Samantha Henig, the Times Magazine’s digital editor, has been writing the Meh List since 2012.
Eight Voicemails from My Grandmother, Who Is Very Upset About the Apparent Death of My Career
This weekend marked the end of the the New York Times Magazine's Meh List, a feature for which I have been the chief columnist for the last two years. Writing The Meh List takes up approximately five minutes of my week. (My real job is as the magazine's digital editor.) But The Meh List is in print. The Meh List has my byline. Therefore, for the purposes of my ninety-year-old grandmother, The Meh List was my job.
The Lives They Lived
A celebration of the writers, thinkers, athletes, scientists and others who died in 2012.
Loudon Wainwright Offers Another Reason It's Tough to Live in Kentucky
In a recent It’s the Economy column, Annie Lowrey wrote about the toughest places to live in America, based on research by the Upshot that focuses on six factors: education, household income, jobless rate, disability rate, life expectancy and obesity rate. Harlan, Ky., like many parts of the Bluegrass State, doesn’t fare so well.
15 Power Couples of the Last 6,000 Years
Of the many categories you can use to sort the giant database of fame that M.I.T.’s media lab put online today — artist, lawyer, philosopher, pirate — one of the most captivating is “companion.” It makes sense that in any rankings of cultural production (Dwight Garner has more on how exactly they were produced), some people make the list not for what they’ve done but whom they know. Most of the famous companions are women married to distinguished men, but not all.
The Lives They Lived
A celebration of the writers, thinkers, athletes, scientists and others who died in 2012.
Your Vegetable Ad Here
Last week, we challenged readers to follow the lead set by the ad agency Victors & Spoils in rebranding broccoli and write their own slogans for untrendy vegetables. We received nearly 400 submissions, demonstrating a full range of our readers’ imaginations (“Cauliflower is the Charlemagne of crucifers,” suggested Chuck Spohr, from Skokie, Ill.) and observations (“Beets turn your pee a beautiful shade of pink,” wrote Sally Macrae from Toronto.) “Ukrainian girls know.
The First Tweet Ain't the Deepest
The creation of Twitter was a sloppy, nasty thing, as Nick Bilton describes in his cover article for Sunday’s magazine. Bilton unearths the collusion and deception behind the scenes in Twitter’s early days. But even on the surface, right there in the Twitter stream, there was something ugly and confused going on. Nobody — founders included — really knew what Twitter was or how to use it.
Daniel Radcliffe's Fantasy Football Dreams
The 6th Floor is the blog of The New York Times Magazine, where staff members — editors, designers, writers, photo editors and researchers — share ideas, arguments, curiosities and links. Against their will; for their own good. The advent of metadata shows us just how much — and how little — we truly know. There might be a human with genuine needs on the other line.
Comments on Comments
In this week’s Riff, Michael Erard recounts the history of Web site comments and explains how their technical origins has shaped the actual commentary we’ve come to expect as usual today. When it comes to the comments sections of newspapers, he writes that they “have mistakenly treated comments as the digital equivalents of letters to the editor.” I wanted to get Bassey Etim’s take on all this.
Great Tennis Writing From the Magazine
Probably his best asset is the variety of his stroking. Most ‘‘big’’ servers of recent years have been notable for their lack of imagination — their inability to alter their belt-’em-hard serve-and-volley technique. Ashe, though, plays his shots rather as he used to play a trumpet in high school, improvising here and there, mixing sweet, fluid notes with a few ambitious, off-key ones. Weeds sprout in it . . .
This Blog Has in Fact Published Stuff Other Than the George Saunders Graduation Speech
The first rule of going viral is that you should never plan to go viral. And with that rule in no way in mind — that’s the point! you can’t think about it! — Joel Lovell let a casual e-mail correspondence with George Saunders morph into a blog post that reached a level of Internet popularly normally reserved for Lindsay Lohan and counterintuitive arguments about yoga.
The Lives They Lived
A celebration of the writers, thinkers, athletes, scientists and others who died in 2012.
Viva la Viva: Gaby Hoffmann's Mother Also Made for Interesting Reading
In Sunday’s magazine, Taffy Brodesser-Akner writes about the child star Gaby Hoffmann, she of the intense hot-dog scene in “Field of Dreams,” who grew up in Lower Manhattan as the daughter of, as Brodesser-Akner puts it, “New York artistic royalty.” Her father was the actor Anthony Herrera, who played a villain on “As the World Turns,” and her mother, Viva, was part of Andy Warhol’s crew.
Women in Politics Have Sex Scandals, Too
It’s a numbers game. It’s a matter of attraction. It’s being too busy with “diapers and bottles and bills and votes and markups” to “possibly think about doing anything else.” There are a number of explanations offered for why men seem to be overrepresented when it comes to sex scandals among politicians or other powerful figures.
Sam Dolnick and the Sports Desk Say What's Meh
The Meh List continued its newsroom tour with a list this past weekend from Sam Dolnick, The Times’s deputy sports editor who raised eyebrows as a guest editor by declaring guest editors “meh.” As he did in his coverage of abuses in New Jersey’s privatized halfway houses, Dolnick fully threw himself into the project. He didn’t just write the list. He lived the list. He spent the week engaged in “a Talmudic debate of the precise makeup of Meh,” he says. “Was it something mediocre?
Brian Stelter Says What's Meh
For the past few months, we’ve been encouraging readers to submit suggestions to the Meh List, either on Twitter, via #mehlist, or by e-mailing me directly. I haven’t done an empirical analysis, but I’m pretty sure that the No. 1 suggestion is “The Meh List.” Don’t I know it. That’s the idea. But it’s also the curse. It can be exhausting, being mired in meh. There are days when I wonder if I’ve lost perspective. Are lobster rolls meh or just overrated?
A World of Secret Watering Holes
Nouakchott, Mauritania Four years ago, a friend and I knocked at a green door in the expat district in Nouakchott. A man peered out through a slat. Assured that we were not Mauritanians, he let us inside, where a solitary drinker nursed a glass of wine. No music, no lights — all hush-hush in this very Islamic capital. Few of the city’s restaurants served wine. If they did, you told the waiter “wine,” he nodded and came out with a brown milk pitcher.
True Tales of Hell in the Kitchen
“In July of 1997, our chef had disciplined one of his kitchen staff. To get back at him, the staff member and his three brothers — two line cooks, the sous-chef and the chef garde manger — walked out and turned off the printer, which is how the kitchen gets the orders. We didn’t find out right away — not what you want to happen at the height of service for more than 400 people, one of whom was a critic from .
What Fuels New Yorkers?
“I bring a sandwich, which is usually baked chicken or turkey on whole wheat with lettuce and tomato, and I have it with hot water with nothing in it — just hot water.” Geoffrey Canada, president and chief executive, Harlem Children’s Zone “Sometimes we all go to Buffalo Wild Wings by the Barclays Center. It’s kind of refreshingly un-New York.
A World of Secret Watering Holes
The Old Imperial Bar in the Imperial Hotel is the closest you can come to sharing a drink with Frank Lloyd Wright. While the original hotel designed by the American architect in 1915 is long gone, his aesthetic spirit still occupies the bar, which is hidden on the second floor of the current hotel, completed in 1970.
Write a Short Story With Kate Atkinson!
1:39 p.m. | Updated Read the full story below.
Why You Should Stop Googling Your Dates
I grew up with a Hollywood-crafted notion of a first date. It happens in montage form, of course, and in a variety of locales—on a picnic, in a rowboat, as you learn the pachanga—while discovering your random common interests: salami sandwiches, Dickens novels, and whatever else we cannot know since the swelling music obscures the words, but any observer can tell it's all charming and perfect.
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
The Lives They Lived
Published: December 28, 2012 The Lives They Lived
Obama’s Ticking Clock
WASHINGTON MONUMENTS: IS THIS OVER YET? In theory, a re-elected president gets four more years. But not really. You spend the first six months after an election breaking in a new cabinet and leadership team. By then, you’re only a year or so from the midterm elections, which are followed by the start of the next presidential cycle. All of which means a second-term president has only a matter of months, really, to command the conversation. But hey, no pressure.
The Inspiration Issue
Would you like to be inspired? Here’s what you should do: Bang on a computer until you hear just the right drum sound. Write a 50-page short story, then throw it out. Sit in a boring room under fluorescent lights on a saggy, secondhand sofa, in the stale air of hours of futility. Break up your band. Have the worst date of your life. Imagine you’re a matador. Watch Nina Simone. Watch Benny Goodman. Watch Al Pacino, meet Al Pacino, be Al Pacino. Get insulted by Shelley Winters.
Bug Beauty Contest
Published: September 6, 2012 Bug Beauty Contest They’re worldly. They’re do-gooders. They’ve got famous friends. But let’s talk about what really matters. Which of these critters from Mozambique, all of which are the subjects of a long-term project led by scientists at Harvard, is the best-looking?
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