{"id":2214,"date":"2019-08-07T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2019-08-25T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:39:20","slug":"the-new-yorker-and-the-current-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2019\/08\/07\/the-new-yorker-and-the-current-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker and the current times"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since I arrived in the US about six years ago, I’ve been interested in learning about the culture of my new country. An obvious way is to read the magazines and learn what people are talking about. Alas, the free press is usually not very interesting. Some magazines are standing out; I’ve been subscribed to The Atlantic<\/a>, the Pacific Standard<\/a>,\u00a0 Wired<\/a> and Rolling Stones<\/a>, and I’ve read GQ, Vanity Fair, The Economist (though British), but while there’s a bunch of good articles, they are plagued by terrible layouts, dull advertisement, and I can’t find any thing that matches some of my favorite French magazines, such as Les Inrocks<\/a> or Le Nouveau Magazine Litteraire<\/a>, though I must say I now realize they often feature subjects that have been thoroughly digested by US magazines.<\/div>\n
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There is however a publication which is consistently good, entertaining, frequent (every week) and almost free of advertisement: The New Yorker<\/a>, which contrary to its name suggests doesn’t delve too much on the (otherwise great) city of New York.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe tells it like it is.\u201d August 18, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Agency<\/h2>\n
Not only the quality and the length of the articles, which are often sheltered from the ceaseless stream of news, allows go deep into some subjects (some arcane but always interesting), but they do make an impact.<\/div>\n
For witness:<\/div>\n