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The Twitterati Are Humbled by a Bollywood Martini
Owen Thomas · 04/06/09 04:20PMSarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Owen Thomas · 04/03/09 04:21PMThe Twitterati Will Have Painkillers, Two CDs, and a Martini
Owen Thomas · 03/25/09 05:40PMTime to Start Hearing About the National Magazine Awards
Hamilton Nolan · 03/19/09 09:10AMFacebook's Redesign Drives Twitterati to Drink
Owen Thomas · 03/18/09 04:43PMGuns, Profanity, Paranoia, and Fear on Twitter
Owen Thomas · 03/10/09 05:00PMDavid Foster Wallace Novel, Unfinished, Coming Next Year
Ryan Tate · 03/02/09 03:47AMJohn McCain Doesn't Know How to Manage a Beaver
Owen Thomas · 02/27/09 04:31PMThe Day the Twitterati Ate Their Own
Owen Thomas · 02/24/09 04:36PMNew Yorker Rahm Emanuel Profile Fails to Attack Rahm Emanuel
Pareene · 02/23/09 12:49PMUnpaid Interns Are the Future
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/09 02:20PMHow Bad Is It at The New Yorker?
Hamilton Nolan · 01/30/09 01:26PMPlease Buy David Denby's Book, So He Can Stop Talking
Hamilton Nolan · 01/22/09 12:26PMTom Wolfe Writes a Letter to The New Yorker In the Third Person
Pareene · 01/02/09 04:53PMThe New Yorker's Joy of Sex Jokes Ruin Both Sex and Joy
Owen Thomas · 12/29/08 05:55PMAdvertiser: Only Airbrush the White Girl!
Ryan Tate · 12/24/08 01:33AMInsanely Bloggy New Yorker Spells It '4ever'
Ryan Tate · 12/17/08 06:04AMThe New Yorker's Tale of Two David Owens
Sheila · 12/09/08 05:59PMFrom page 8 of this week's New Yorker: "EDITOR'S NOTE: On the Contributors page of the December 1st issue, the book "In Sickness and in Power," attributed to the New Yorker writer David Owen, was in fact written by a different David Owen." Even funnier? The "other David Owen" is, in fact, the former British Foreign Secretary one of the founders of their Social Democratic Party. And it's Lord Owen to you.
Pilot Warns Of 'Reckless' Malcolm Gladwell
Ryan Tate · 12/05/08 04:43AMMalcolm Gladwell's fellow intellectuals, bloggers and Canadians were the first to turn against the New Yorker essayist's accessible and apparently all-too-convincing ideas; now the various professional classes are, one after another, joining the backlash against his DANGEROUSLY misleading anecdotes. Fearsome reviewer Michiko Kakutani was brutal in the Times ("glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing"); the Malcolm Gladwell of computer programmers rather ironically ripped into him ("utterly lunatic theories"); and now a pilot writing in Salon warns that Gladwell will kill us all! Or at least perpetuate untrue stereotypes, false assumptions and incorrect statistics around commercial airline safety, which is almost as dangerous, if you'll grant us some Gladwellian license here. Take, for example, this exchange: