The New Yorker--The anniversary issue--2/13 and 2/20
Either the current issue of the New Yorker is unusually full of great reading or I was so relieved to be inside and not shoveling any more snow on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning that I just paid more attention than usual. Anyway, there's a lot to read in this issue, including:
---A personal history of cookbooks by Nora Ephron
---an essay by Malcolm Gladwell on the likely fact that whether it's homelessness, police brutality, or auto emissions, the real chronic issue is an extremely small segment of each population, and what that suggests for solutions.
---James Stewart on the fall of the mutual fund manager and philanthropist Alberto Vilar, which has already been chronicled in some detail in the NY Times over the last year, but this adds more.
---A report by Steve Coll on the relationship between Pakistan, India and the U.S. relating primarily to the tensions in late 2001 and the nuclear wild card that is represented by the opposing sides, and by the question of Pakistan's actual control of its weapons. The detail here is a little tedious at times but the issue is important enough to plow through it.
---Very importantly, there's a three page comic strip by Aline and R. Crumb that's priceless.
---A wonderful short exchange between Mark Singer and Donald Trump in the Talk of the Town that shows Trump as the callous lout that he is.
And I have not taken the time yet to read the short fiction by Haruki Murakami, which I expect to do soon. The only sour note so far is the consistently uninspiring Financial Page by James Suroweiki. He writes about the issue of CEO pay which is ok, but he almost never has anything insightful to say and just repeats what has already been written in other publications, week after week, not up to New Yorker standards it seems to me.
---A personal history of cookbooks by Nora Ephron
---an essay by Malcolm Gladwell on the likely fact that whether it's homelessness, police brutality, or auto emissions, the real chronic issue is an extremely small segment of each population, and what that suggests for solutions.
---James Stewart on the fall of the mutual fund manager and philanthropist Alberto Vilar, which has already been chronicled in some detail in the NY Times over the last year, but this adds more.
---A report by Steve Coll on the relationship between Pakistan, India and the U.S. relating primarily to the tensions in late 2001 and the nuclear wild card that is represented by the opposing sides, and by the question of Pakistan's actual control of its weapons. The detail here is a little tedious at times but the issue is important enough to plow through it.
---Very importantly, there's a three page comic strip by Aline and R. Crumb that's priceless.
---A wonderful short exchange between Mark Singer and Donald Trump in the Talk of the Town that shows Trump as the callous lout that he is.
And I have not taken the time yet to read the short fiction by Haruki Murakami, which I expect to do soon. The only sour note so far is the consistently uninspiring Financial Page by James Suroweiki. He writes about the issue of CEO pay which is ok, but he almost never has anything insightful to say and just repeats what has already been written in other publications, week after week, not up to New Yorker standards it seems to me.
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