Read more New Yorker magazine stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1260/new-yorker-magazine.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:15:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69588/8-days-that-shook-the-financial-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJames Stewart’s reconstruction of the 8 nail-biting days, a year ago, in which the federal government stepped in to stop the collapse of the world financial system—published in the New Yorker this week, just as Fed chief Ben Bernanke was declaring the recession officially over—makes riveting, tense reading....http://www.newser.com/story/69588/8-days-that-shook-the-financial-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 21:35:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61935/mccain-to-cia-chief-panetta-retract-cheney-slam-now.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSen. John McCain called today on CIA director Leon Panetta to “retract immediately” his suggestion that Dick Cheney might want another attack on the US, the Hill reports. Panetta told the New Yorker that “it’s almost as if” Cheney is “wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order...http://www.newser.com/story/61935/mccain-to-cia-chief-panetta-retract-cheney-slam-now.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 13:16:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56849/bloodthirsty-new-guinea-tribesman-sues-new-yorker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Papua New Guinea tribesman portrayed as a bloodthirsty, revenge-driven killer in a New Yorker article is seeking payback from the magazine, Forbes reports. A $10 million lawsuit charges that the story wrongly accuses Daniel Wemp and another tribesman of rape and murder when they had only been recounting traditional...http://www.newser.com/story/56849/bloodthirsty-new-guinea-tribesman-sues-new-yorker.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Apr 2009 4:57:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52134/new-yorker-to-run-excerpt-of-wallaces-last-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDavid Foster Wallace fans can get a glimpse of the deceased writer’s unfinished novel tomorrow, when the New Yorker publishes an excerpt from The Pale King , the Washington Post reports. Wallace, who killed himself last fall, had been working on the book for years. The magazine will also run an...http://www.newser.com/story/52134/new-yorker-to-run-excerpt-of-wallaces-last-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Mar 2009 16:43:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47999/marketers-have-inauguration-fever-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMarketers for products from cognac to commemorative coins are looking to cash in on Barack Obama’s Tuesday inauguration, the New York Times reports. “Obamabilia” includes bottles of Hennessy with a “44” on the label, special magazine issues, and Tshirts galore. Other companies, like Quaker Oatmeal, are hosting Inauguration Day events...http://www.newser.com/story/47999/marketers-have-inauguration-fever-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Jan 2009 9:20:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41423/downturn-hammers-magazine-industry-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe economic downturn is taking its toll on magazines, forcing layoffs and budget cuts as publications face fewer advertising dollars, Women’s Wear Daily reports; the trouble is compounded as production costs soar while readers turn to the Internet. Magazine ad revenue fell 5% in the first three quarters of 2008,...http://www.newser.com/story/41423/downturn-hammers-magazine-industry-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Oct 2008 14:40:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40140/most-americans-lack-basic-political-knowledge-survey.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOnly 18% of Americans can correctly name the current secretary of state, Britain’s prime minister and which party controls the US House, a LiveScience survey finds. Among the survey’s 3,612-person sample, more than half correctly said that the Democrats have a majority in the House, while 42% correctly identified...http://www.newser.com/story/40140/most-americans-lack-basic-political-knowledge-survey.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 16 Oct 2008 15:36:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-endorses-obamas-uplift-and-realism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt a critical moment in its history, the United States "needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness"—and Barack Obama is the man to deliver it, writes the New Yorker in a 4,000-word endorsement. After George W. Bush, whose presidency has been "the worst since Reconstruction," America...http://www.newser.com/story/39282/new-yorker-endorses-obamas-uplift-and-realism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Oct 2008 12:21:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38410/late-night-stars-go-undercover.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTaking their spoofing of TV into print, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart grace the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly in imitation of the Obamas-as-terrorists New Yorker cover that set media of all kinds afire in July. The stunt surely threatens to obscure the question-and-answer session it’s intended to advertise,...http://www.newser.com/story/38410/late-night-stars-go-undercover.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Sep 2008 14:11:01 CDT