I've been reading the magazine now and then for the past year, but not in a very immersive way. More like in a Yes! No! Like! WTF! kind of way. Denby, television reviews, election politics, k-pop...
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You tell 'em. Anthony Lane made me laugh with joy in the bathroom: > There’s only one problem with home cinema: it doesn’t exist. The > very phrase is an oxymoron. As you ...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/carte-blanche-is-no-way-to-run-cultural.html
Do I have any idea who this Whitney Cummings person is? Does my television even work? Have I ever seen more 30 Rock than the awful pilot? No, no, and no. So thank you, Emily Nussbaum, for so quic...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/hasenpfeffer-incorporated.html
Courtney Love and Johnny Depp all in one issue? Is it Sassy? Is it 1991? No, it is this month's Vanity Fair. But I always stop reading articles about Johnny Depp about half-way through. He's ne...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/grunge-rinse-repeat.html
I found Mendelsohn's "Critic at Large" piece on Rimbaud completely enjoyable. I loved the way Mendelsohn wove together the best one-liners from critics, and reviews of the (not so recent) biograp...
Anna Faris = Feminist Masochism. Her life, her work, the article itself. Makes you want to go cold turkey and enter some sort of upstate separatist enclave. Failing that, spend a moment or two w...
If you're not inclined to see Tree of Life, Anthony Lane's review will bring you up to speed. David Denby on Meek's Cutoff , "a pleasureless, anti-sensuous aesthetic." !!?? Whose experience doe...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/06/films-people-walked-out-on-summer-2011.html
Did you really think I was going to let that slide? Denby and "The Case for Joan Crawford." Denby seems – rightly – rather scared of Joan Crawford. Not because she is all the intimidating ...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/06/trial-of-st-joan.html
"Christ, What an asshole!" Apparently, one of the earliest uses of the word "asshole" in TNY involves no less a powerful and artsy triumvirate than Janet Malcolm, Ingrid Sischy and Rosalind Kra...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/06/where-intelligent-classy-well-educated.html
I read full articles on Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Taylor in VF this past weekend. I was at the beach, right? I've always loved Taylor's looks, at every age, in every way. But she's not that i...
I've got a new subscription to Vanity Fair, which means I read part of Rob Lowe's autobiography. Yup. I've also got a subscription to The Nation and boy do I love their arts and lit coverage. And...
Denby on Jane Fucking Eyre : "This fervent, angry novel gave a strong impetus to both feminist fiction and romance novels." Feminist fiction and romance novels. You don't say.
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/understatement-of-week.html
I just saw that Daily Show from January where Jon Stewart doesn't quite have the time to bake a linzertorte . Huh.
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/jon-stewart-doesnt-bake-linzertorte.html
Just a few of the recently recurring themes here at the blog. If David Sedaris won't do it, New Yorker poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will. Confirm the bureaucratic nature of groundhogs, that is. The ...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/motherhood-feminism-groundhogs.html
"This is the infuriating thing that dawns on you one day: even if you would never sleep with or even flirt with anyone to get ahead, you are being sexually adjudicated." That is, of course, Tina ...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/ill-get-you-my-little-pretty.html
Although I had no idea this public kerfuffle was going on, I'm glad Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about it for TNY. She took the whole thing fairly seriously, in its personal and political dimensions....
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/tiger-moms-and-house-cats.html
Magical Dinners is right. Korean food, Thanksgiving memories, subscribers only! I loved this, especially the part about licking the mini blinds. Vanity Fair/Sanity Air. Just in time for Valent...
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As opposed to what? Keywords: Linzertorte, Kanye, Hathaway, Ballet, Groundhog 1. You know I love linzertorte. Long story short, A. Goodman? Don't used blanched nuts, hazelnuts are traditional,...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2010/12/solipsistic-and-desultory-reading-of.html
I'm reading a John Le Carre spy novel from 1989, Russia House - I heard him interviewed on Democracy Now - and, when I'm in the bathroom, I'm reading a clever essay on hipsters, in New York magaz...
I read that thing about the little tween fashion blogger. Interesting enough, I guess. Oh, and I actually loved the cover of the fashion issue, the one with the animals in furs. I liked the style...
Geez. Another one of those annoying throw-away Proust references. Who wrote this? Oh, Roland Barthes. On the death of his mother. Er. Nevermind.
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2010/10/theres-time-and-place-for-everything.html
I got the New Yorker with Jane Mayer on the Koch brothers and I thought to myself, "Yawn. Libertarian bazillionaires convincing the public to vote against their own interests? What else is new??...
Charles Schumer. Toobin, cute, but no biggie. (subscription only) The Senate, in general, by George Packer. Funny, sad and easy to read. (avail) David Sedaris on airline travel, and hate. Hit...
http://ihatethenyer.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-did-you-think.html
Lot of people love him, lots of people mock him. But does he always write with such insistent internal rhymes, I ask you? On Sitting Down to Read A.O. Scott's Review of The Other Guys , Once Aga...
You saw this, right? (Huffington Post) James Thurber's Seal Barks and Kanye West's Tweets united in holy matrimony by some comedians named Paul and Storm . The funniest thing to happen to New ...
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