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1. their pieces are so long that they're usually about events that happened weeks to months ago

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain”

2. I'm fond of the New Yorker's fiction section but there is this genre of "long-form writing"

   Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft”

3. Finishing a good New Yorker article, or a book laying by my bed often expands my worldview

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Text Is King”

4. There are writers who can make that interesting, and you can read them in the New Yorker.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “How to Write English Prose”

5. Subscribing to support journalism you care about is a real public service, in my view.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?”

6. High quality long-form journalism and short fiction with minimal advertising

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized”

7. reasonably priced and regularly includes excellent investigative journalism

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?”

8. Atlantic and New Yorker my two favorite publications for long form articles

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “The Fall of Scientific American”

9. The New Yorker may be pretentious but it's generally not unreadable

   Mixed · Sep 2026 · in “Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1”

10. I generally dislike short stories but really liked both of those.

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “What Gets Kept”

11. makes me glad I recently subscribed to the New Yorker

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy”

12. happy to support serious longform journalism

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?”

13. has great longform every once in a while

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “I Stopped Following the News”

14. writing that is written to sound impressive, and takes forever to get to the point

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “The revolt of the reader”

15. It has always felt to me like every piece is deliberately drawn out.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized”

16. basically The Sun with rambling text instead of pictures of aliens

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Most men lie about how tall they are”

17. I find their brand of longer form journalism extremely tiresome

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized”

18. Bravo New Yorker, defeating my regular expression because I've never once seen it referred to as A.I.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain”

19. a lot more content and the cartoons, on minus side, have to filter a lot of New York only culture

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “The Case That A.I. Is Thinking”

20. You can walk down to a bookstore or anywhere that sells magazines and buy a physical copy

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?”

21. My favorite part of this article was this bit, and naturally so, since I love the author

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?”

22. There's a great piece in the current New Yorker about that very thing

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism”

23. they produce the best visuals across all the online publications

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies”

24. the New Yorker recently put out a great short about it

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]”

25. the old standards of The New Yorker and The Atlantic

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Deno Sandbox”

26. has fascinating and well written medical stories

    Recommends · May 2026 · in “It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?”

27. New yorker is the other mag I subscribed to.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “What is happening to writing?: Claude Code and the negative space around AI”

28. mine even gives me The New Yorker for free

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Reading is a vice: US student reading abilities and habits are declining”

29. I'm a longtime New Yorker lover myself.

    Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized”

30. enjoyed the rest of the magazine

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost?”

31. I always thought there was a very fertile "other articles you might like" grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized”

32. Often I get the sense the journalists at those publications haven't seen a number since high school

    Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Is The Economist Always Wrong?”

33. This is reminding me why I stopped reading the New Yorker.

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?”

34. has six trackers monitoring access to a single web page

    Criticizes · Sep 2026 · in “Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit”

35. it's the human that's wasting my time[1]

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “ai;dr”