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Seymour Hersh delivering the Mario Savio lecture

Seymour Hersh delivering the Mario Savio lecture
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

The webcast of his Mario Savio lecture is now online (as someone points out
int the comments, the speech starts begins about 40 minutes into the webcast).

Compare and contrast with his speech just over a year ago.

He also mentions an interview he did with Scott Ritter (it is online and you can download it by looking up RadioNation on iTunes or other podcast software and downloading the 10/27 episode).

Covering mental health

This week's New Yorker features The Dictionary of Disorder by Alix Spiegel. She did a story on Robert Spitzer, the subject of her article, for NPR.

Earlier she did Eighty-One Words for This American Life.

She was interviewed about her interest in covering mental health on the Third Coast Festival website and an NPR story on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Also, more her stories for NPR (most focus on mental health).

The New Yorker has an article on the murder of Theo van Gogh.

I haven't been blogging the New Yorker weekly since it seems you can now find old articles on google.

I also discovered a page with the press release on each week's issue. Also, Greg Allen has been keeping a better archive of past articles than I did.

The introduction and a conversation between Françoise Mouly and Lawrence Weschler from Covering the New Yorker is online.

Hersh on problems in Afghanistan & more in the April 12th New Yorker

Talk of the Town includes a story on Chuck D and Air America.

As the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate, Seymour Hersh writes about the continuing problems in Afghanistan. There is also an online interview with Hersh and an article from February on the Shia in Iraq.

Columbia J-school dean Nicholas Lemann writes about Paul Starr’s book, The Creation of the Media. Plus briefly noted.

Philip Gourevitch writes about (in a piece not online) about the primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Spector.

Ann Beattie's short story, The Rabbit Hole as Likely Explanation.

Sasha Frere-Jones on Madvillain.

John Lahr reviews Sly Fox and Sarah, Sarah.

David Denby reviews I’m Not Scared and Twentynine Palms.

Can Jeb Bush deliver the Florida vote in November?

The March 15th New Yorker (yes, I actually post links to the articles when the issue goes online):

William Finnegan asks Can Jeb Bush deliver the Florida vote in November? online interview with Finnegan. Finnegan will be interviewed on Leonard Lopate's show Monday, March 8th on WNYC.

Columbia journalism school dean Nicholas Lemann reviews Jason Blair's book.

Malcolm Gladwell on the shopping mall.

Briefly noted includes a review of Hans Blix's Disarming Iraq.

Paul Rudnick on gospel according to Debbie.

Anthony Lane reviews the Return and Distant.

Nancy Franklin on the Oscars.

Hilton Als reviews King Lear and Big Bill.

Judith Thurman on Hump the Grinder’s Hair Wars 10-Year Anniversary & California Hair Grammys.

Nuclear traders

I should be getting the old fashioned print version of the New Yorker soon, so I'm going to resume blogging it.

From the March 8th issue:

Talk of the Town (Nader, Lisa Simpson & more)

Seymour Hersh writes about nuclear traders and the hunt for bin Laden.

Dan Baum writes about soldiers wounded in Iraq. An online interview with Baum.

Long Ago Yesterday, a story by Hanif Kureishi.

George Saunders on My Amendment.

Sasha Frere-Jones on cellist Arthur Russell.

Peter Schjeldahl writes Parmigianino.

Elizabeth Kolbert reviews some books on motherhood. Briefly noted.

John Lahr reviews Fiddler on the Roof and Bridge and Tunnel.

David Denby reviews Osama and Goodbye, Lenin!

Catching up on the New Yorker

While I was working on the Gonzalez campaign, I did manage to save the table of contents for the New Yorker most weeks and will try and get the articles from each issue online when I get a chance. Most people have piles of the New Yorker stacked up to catch up with. I have html pages I have to blog here stacked up in a folder on my computer.

They have put a conversation online about Saddam Hussein's capture between Philip Gourevitch and George Packer and some links to their recent articles. Unfortunately, instead of using real audio, they use flash (could someone please hire some people with new ideas for the New Yorker website? It could be one of the best sites on the web).

New Yorker blahs (November 10th, 2003 issue)

I missed blogging an issue of the New Yorker again.

I'm able to pull a few articles from the November 10th issue out of the front page google cache. Actually found the google cache of the contents page, so I should be able to get everything.

Still, I'd rather they provided archives and a search box, so I didn't have to remember (or forget) to do this every week. I'd say at least half the search requests the lead people to this blog are people looking for New Yorker articles I've linked to, so lots of people are similarly frustrated.

Talk of the Town.

Tara Bahrampour writes about second generation Iranian immigrants. Plus a October 2001 article from the archives on the Arab-American community in Dearborn, MI.

Jerome Groopman's article on Christopher Reeve isn't online, but there is an interview with him.

T. Coraghessan Boyle's story, Tooth and Claw.

David Denby reviews Matrix Revolutions, Veronica Guerin, and Beyond Borders (which is well intentioned, but really, really bad - they should have just given the budget to helping refugees). John Lahr reviews Wicked.

Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Rembrandt at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Nancy Franklin reviews Arrested Development and Kid Notorious.

Thomas Mallon writes about photographer Cecil Beaton’s diaries. Briefly noted.

Tina Fey & more in the New Yorker 11-3

Virginia Heffernan profiles Tina Fey. Also, a 2002 piece on Saturday Night Live by Malcolm Gladwell (who has an archive of many of his New Yorker articles).

Talk of the Town.

What would Jesus test-drive? by Jesse Lichtenstein.

Have You Seen the Stolen Girl?, a story by Tony Earley.

Jim Holt reviews David Foster Wallace's Everything and More

John Updike reviews Goya by Robert Hughes. John Lahr reviews William Nicholson’s play, The Retreat from Moscow.

Anthony Lane reviews Shattered Glass and the Human Stain.

Joan Acocella on dances by Merce Cunningham with performances by Radiohead and Sigur Ros. Alex Ross on violinist and conductor Andrew Manze.

Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Philip Guston retrospective which runs through January 4th at the Met (I saw it a few months ago at SFMOMA - they still have an online companion to the exhibit).

An interview with George Packer about his piece on the Ivory Coast (which isn't online). He'll have a piece on Iraq soon (it is mentioned in this piece from Salon).

New Yorker Making Movies issue 10-20

This special movies issue seems worth picking up if you can find a copy since a lot of it isn't online including pieces by Don DeLillo and Rebecca Meade. There also are pieces on stunts, cinematography, lighting, and Quentin Tarantino. Tad Friend examines how credits are determined.

Talk of the Town

There is a profile of screenwirting guru Roger McGee (who was a character in Adaptation). There are brief stories on sound designer Richard King, Best Boy, Costume Designer, Composer, Prop Master, Weapons Coördinator.

Louis Menand writes about Anthony Lane reviews Syvia. Books in brief covers a number of movie related films.

Alex Ross on Ned Rorem. Hilton Als on Albee and Beckett. Peter Schjeldahl on the El Greco show at the Metropolitan Museum.

Donald Antrim has a short story, Pond, with Mud. He is the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist.

There is a selection of covers by William Steig. From the archives: a 1997 article by James Salter on his experiences as a screenwriter and a 1928 Talk of the Town item by Robert Benchley on sound films.

New Yorker 10-13

Talk of the Town

Tad Friend on suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge.

A Stone Woman, a story by A.S. Byatt. Humor piece on a lost cat by Patricia Marx.

A review of a book on Diane Arbus (an exhibit of her work will be at SFMOMA). Books briefly noted.

Nancy Franklin reviews Coupling and Joan of Arcadia. David Denby reviews Mystic River and Kill Bill.

An online interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about her profile of Hillary Clinton which isn't online. A brief piece from the archives on Vladimir Putin by David Remnick who has a longer profile of him in this issue which isn't online.