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About a Boy : Transgender surgery at sixteen.
Margaret Talbot New Yorker In America, doctors didn’t talk openly about the feasibility of sex-change operations until after the Second World War. In 1949, a psychiatrist named David O. Cauldwell…
Quelques articles sur l’espionnage entre compagnies
Confessions of a Corporate Spy George Chidi Revue Inc. What do you think it means to be an expert in "hard-to-get elicitation"? It means people tell you things. A competitive…
Survival Strategies for Local Journalism
By Vauhini Vara New Yorker In an attempt to draw readers and advertisers, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing on high-quality glossy paper in November, 2009. Its circulation had dropped…
Life in the nineties. (L’auteur a 93 ans)
Roger Angell New Yorker I’m ninety-three, and I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in…
Un abonné nous signale: Médias. Tchekhov : le meilleur journaliste d’investigation du XIXe siècle ?
Courrier International En 1890, le jeune dramaturge russe Anton Tchekhov séjourna trois mois dans l’île de Sakhaline, au large de la Sibérie. Son récit méconnu des conditions de vie des…
Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobic satire.
Adam Gopnik New Yorker The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary “case” to be reprimanded as much as an author to be read, and his new novel, “Soumission,”…
L’excellente chronique du New Yorker, Annals of Food, porte sur les poulets contaminés
A Bug in the System: Why last night’s chicken made you sick. Wil. S. Hylton (....) Each year, contaminated food sickens forty-eight million Americans, of whom a hundred and twenty-eight…
Quand le New Yorker fait la critique de “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Désopilant.
Anthony Lane New Yorker If the figures are correct, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E. L. James, has been bought by more than a hundred million people, of whom only…
How Headlines Change the Way We Think
By Maria Konnikova New Yorker Why Headlines Matter.” “Misleading Headlines Can Lead You Astray.” “How What You Read Affects What You See.” “How Bad Headlines Make Bad Memories.” “Eleven Reasons…
“Modern Farmer” and the back-to-the-land moment.
By Alec Wilkinson New Yorker Modern Farmer appeared in the spring of 2013. After three issues, it won a National Magazine Award; no other magazine had ever won so quickly.…