November 27, 2023 - The New Yorker Magazine torrent

Category: Anthology, Art, Contemporary
Language: English
Keywords: Cultural Commentary Culture Current-affairs Fiction Humor Humour magazine News opinion Poetry Politics Reporting Weekly

Written by The New Yorker Magazine
Format: MP3
Abridged

As previously advised, there’s now a delay between the release of The New Yorker, and compiling this audio. This gets you more of the magazine in audio format.

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Since its founding, in 1925, The New Yorker has evolved from a Manhattan-centric “fifteen-cent comic paper” — as its first editor, Harold Ross, put it — to a multi-platform publication known worldwide for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, and humor. The New Yorker continues to stand apart for its rigor, fairness, and excellence, and for its singular mix of stories that surprise, delight, and inform.

November 27, 2023 - Audio Contents

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Biden and Xi’s Blunt Talk
A Design Geek’s Space Race: Meatball vs. Worm

REFLECTIONS: The Violence of the Rams - Life among the animals, by David Sedaris

FAMILY LIFE: Point Blank - Piecing together a parent’s murder, by Eren Orbey

PROFILES: Personal Statement - How Joyce Carol Oates has used writing to forge a self, by Rachel Aviv

THE CRITICS: BOOKS - Briefly Noted
• Fear Is Just a Word, by Azam Ahmed (Random House)
• Beyond the Wall, by Katja Hoyer (Basic)
• Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
• The Love of Singular Men, by Victor Heringer, translated from the Portuguese by James Young (New Directions)

POEMS
‘Memory and Geography’ by Stav Poleg
‘I Am a Prayer’ by Joy Harjo

Amanda Mull reveals the strategies retailers use to get you to buy more stuff, and what you can do to have a more sustainable holiday.

COVER: ‘Harvest’ by Chris Ware

Only a selection of the long reads are available as audio. For remaining content, including cartoons, refer to the print version