Gone Girl, gun violence, and the media's focus on the media

December 30, 2014 5:07 PM

The New Yorker's "Most-Read" Blog Posts of 2014. The New Yorker's most-read blog posts and magazine stories of 2013. And for the one most-important article in each issue of the magazine (according to one San Franciscan), there's The New Yorkerest.

2014's selections (links = previously discussed on MetaFilter):

• “The Open-Office Trap,” by Maria Konnikova, January 7th.
• “Arizona Confronting Awkward Realization That Gay People Have Money, Buy Stuff,” by Andy Borowitz, February 25th.
• “Christopher Michael-Martinez’s Father Gets It Right,” by Adam Gopnik, May 25th.
• “Why Jill Abramson Was Fired,” by Ken Auletta, May 14th.
• “A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS,” by George Packer, August 6th.
• “What I Saw in Ferguson,” by Jelani Cobb, August 14th.
• “What ‘Gone Girl’ Is Really About,” by Joshua Rothman, October 8th.
• “Marriage Is an Abduction,” by Elif Batuman, October 10th.
• “The Percy Jackson Problem,” by Rebecca Mead, October 22nd.
• “ ‘The Newsroom’ ’s Crazy-Making Campus Rape Episode,” by Emily Nussbaum, December 7th.
• “The Looks You’re Given and the Looks You’re Born with,” by Amanda Filipacchi, December 12th.
• “Inside the Collapse of The New Republic,” by Ryan Lizza, December 12th.
• “Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies,” by Mallory Ortberg, December 18th.
• “Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer,” by Tim Wu, December 26th.

posted by psoas (2 comments total)

Thanks for this. And I love The NewYorkerist for pointing me to articles when I don't have time to actually look at the magazine (which is often, lately).
posted by triggerfinger at 8:51 PM on December 30, 2014

It's frustrating to realize that I've already used up all my free articles: this keeps happening (with the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker...) but there's a limit to the number of subscriptions one frail woman can afford...
posted by jrochest at 1:11 AM on December 31, 2014 [1 favorite]