[GrryDucape]

Sometimes one wonders why the Times wanders so far afield, picking up where the New Yorker and others once thrived. Other times, like this one, the cause is clear, pure and joyous, a stab in the literary darkness of our times.

[matt4077]

The New Yorker is still quite thriving, and is publishing stories that would also work for the Times (cf Ronan Farrow’s #metoo scoops). The Atlantic has massively improved and now close to their level (cf Graeme Woods), albeit with less of a focus on literature.

It feels like these publishers are somewhat converging, doing a rather good job connecting (paying) excellent writers with the high end of readership, with not too much deference to the material being a perfect fit for their respective wheelhouses.