Behind the Times
January 19, 2010 5:47 AM Subscribe
What are your favorite stories / essays / etc. from the New York Times? I recently started reading the Sunday NYTimes and love a lot of the stories I find within, especially within the magazine. I feel like I have just discovered a treasure trove of interesting reading but have no idea where to start. I am not interested in any specific topic. I just like reading interesting stuff. Here are perfect examples recently found via AskMe. Help this cave dweller discover the light of the Gray Lady.
This may or may not answer your question, but I start every morning on the Most E-mailed page. It is the only way I get any semblance of actual news by real journalists that don't write for Gawker, and there's always something interesting there.
posted by caveat at 7:00 AM on January 19, 2010
posted by caveat at 7:00 AM on January 19, 2010
What Do Women Want? (Daniel Bergner)
Getting the Girl (Lisa Belkin)
The Singer Solution to World Poverty (Peter Singer)
Farmer in Chief (Michael Pollan)
Rethinking the Meat Guzzler (Mark Bittman)
Against Meat (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Where Sweatshops are a Dream (Nicholas Kristof)
In the Real World of Work and Wages, Trickle-Down Theories Don’t Hold Up (Robert Frank)
posted by Jaltcoh at 7:32 AM on January 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Getting the Girl (Lisa Belkin)
The Singer Solution to World Poverty (Peter Singer)
Farmer in Chief (Michael Pollan)
Rethinking the Meat Guzzler (Mark Bittman)
Against Meat (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Where Sweatshops are a Dream (Nicholas Kristof)
In the Real World of Work and Wages, Trickle-Down Theories Don’t Hold Up (Robert Frank)
posted by Jaltcoh at 7:32 AM on January 19, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oh, and read these fast, before they go behind the pay wall!
posted by Jaltcoh at 7:44 AM on January 19, 2010
posted by Jaltcoh at 7:44 AM on January 19, 2010
On a sidenote, is it possible to subscribe to just the Sunday magazine without getting any other part of the Times? I love the magazine...
posted by jdroth at 7:53 AM on January 19, 2010
posted by jdroth at 7:53 AM on January 19, 2010
More visual than text-based, but Maira Kalman's And the Pursuit of Happiness is consistently amazing.
posted by jalexei at 8:11 AM on January 19, 2010
posted by jalexei at 8:11 AM on January 19, 2010
On a sidenote, is it possible to subscribe to just the Sunday magazine without getting any other part of the Times? I love the magazine...
I believe you can get just the Sunday paper...not sure about just the magazine.
posted by jckll at 9:00 AM on January 19, 2010
I believe you can get just the Sunday paper...not sure about just the magazine.
posted by jckll at 9:00 AM on January 19, 2010
I don't think you can get just the magazine. As for regular columns, I love the Modern Love essays in the Sunday Styles section but they can be a bit sappy or sentimental for some. Also Metropolitan Diary every Monday is fun to read if you've ever lived or spent any time in New York.
posted by janerica at 1:38 PM on January 19, 2010
posted by janerica at 1:38 PM on January 19, 2010
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posted by jckll at 6:15 AM on January 19, 2010