What we measured
We loaded nybooks.com in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 10
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 3
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 7
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of nybooks.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The New York Review of Books
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- What Does a Puta Want?
- ‘The Silent Art’
- Jerry Survives
- The Profiler
- The Road to the Rent Freeze
- Libya: The Dangerous Gamble
- Listening for the Unconscious
- Moving Mountains
- Homer vs. Hollywood: Daniel Mendelsohn on Christopher Nolan’s
- A Gust from Another World
- A Taste of Infinity
- Along the Ucayali River
- Blueprint
- Home Invasions
- Where the Meanings Are
Where it sits in Culture & Arts
- #8 Angry Metal Guy79.5
- #9 Asymptote79
- #10 The New York Review of Books78.5
- #11 Two Coats of Paint78.5
- #12 Aquarium Drunkard77.5