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Founded in 1925, The New Yorker hardly changed for its first 60 years, both in its dry, type-heavy design and in its reputation as a writer's and reader's haven. In 1987 it was on only its second editor when management decided to shake things up. A rocky decade ensued, but The New Yorker is now back at the top of its game under David Remnick's editorship. Each issue offers commentaries and reporting on politics, culture, and events, with a focus that's both national and international; humor and cartoons; fiction and poetry; and reviews of books, movies, theater, music, art, and fashion. Several times a year special issues focus on a theme--music, fashion, business. The writing is mostly first-rate, frequently coming from top literary and journalistic talents. The New Yorker's weekly issues can seem overwhelming--so much good stuff to read, piling up so fast!--but it's as easy to dip in for a small snack as it is to wade in for a substantial meal. --Nicholas H. Allison
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Discusses current events and ideas, combining domestic and international news analysis with cartoons, sports, fashion & arts, profiles, short fiction and poetry.
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- Publisher: Condé Nast Publications
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54 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
 almost forgot to mention the cool covers, July 10, 2006
The New Yorker is both a blessing and a curse for me. It's a great magazine, but sometimes I feel so compelled to keep up with my weekly New Yorkers that I find it feeling like a burden.
My brother has a system, he just shared it with me, I hope he doesn't mind me sharing with you. The day a new issue arrives, he immediately goes through page by page, removes the subscription cards and advertisements, reads the cartoons and asides ("constabulary notes from around the world," "Block that Metaphor"), scans the poems, and gets the lay of the land. He then goes back later with a map in mind of which articles need to be read, and can tackle them undistracted by the rest of the magazine. I don't know, he says it works for him, he never falls behind.
My grandfather read the New Yorker every week. He had a coffee table filled with the newspapers and magazines he subscribed to. He also drank tanqueray. He did not do Sudokus or listen to Gabby La La, but perhaps would have if born in a different era. He had big bookcases filled with wonderful books. Sometimes a visitor would marvel at how many books he owned, and ask "have you really read all these books?" He would answer, "no, not all." And after the visitor left, he would gently and with remarkable restraint, explain to us why the question asked reveals a lack of education and sophistication. "...any serious reader knows that nobody has read all the books in their collection"
In my review of Highlights Magazine (or as my daughter calls it, "Maz-a-Gine"), I called it the New Yorker of kids literature. So it is only fair for me to now pronounce the New Yorker to be the Highlights Magazine of adult lit. A little old-fashioned, snobby, a touch stale, but still the best there is. I didn't even mind it during the Tina Brown era, it lost a little of its uniqueness temporarily but was still a cut above the rest. I wouldn't mind if there was a little more variety in the poetry, less of the same types of dreary poems about growing older and having your lover die from the same dreary poets, more of an effort to discover new poets. I love the fiction issues when they attempt to showcase new writers.
I'd possibly get more out of it if I lived in New York. As it is, I'm mostly taunting myself by reading the "Goings on about town."
Lately I've been especially enjoying the political essays in "The Talk of the Town" by the likes of Hendrik Hertzberg, David Remnick, as well as the journalism of Seymour Hersh. This kind of reporting is more important than ever, important to be appearing in a mainstream, respected publication during a time when the executive branch is doing everything in its power to intimidate an already cowed media. Henrick Hertzburg's recent essay on the proposed flag burning amendment. I intuitively know what he is saying, intuitively believe it to be morally and philosophically correct, but can't articulate my thoughts with the elegance and clarity of Mr. Hertzburg. He concisely lays out not just how wrong the amendment is, but also how irrelevant the issue is in all but a symbolic, abstract dimension. He writes that Republic and Democrat supporters "do not seriously regard it is as a good let alone necessary idea," and sprinkles in the beautiful parenthetical "(intellectual corruption, like the venal variety is no stranger to either party, even if, in the present era, both varieties are more common among the Republicans.)" Good stuff, Papa would have appreciated it.
Buy it, subscribe, enjoy.
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
As necessary as the air I breathe, June 21, 2006
I encountered the New Yorker in my best friend's house when I was ten years old, becoming hooked from the first time I opened the magazine. Ever since I have been an enthusiastic, appreciative reader. I delight in the quality of the prose;I laugh uproariously at the deliciously witty cartoons; savor the poems; marvel at the creative covers and other artwork. Five stars plus plus plus!
Yes, as other amazon reviewers have pointed out, the quality of the magazine declined drastically during the Tina Brown era. Happily for all concerned, the New Yorker is back on track after that unfortunate detour.
Throughout its illustrious history, some critics have said that the magazine is too focused on New York City. While the events listings are invaluable to people living in the area, this best of all American magazines offers in-depth articles, rich humor, superb book, music, movie, dance, and art reviews aimed at a reading public all over the country. I would even expand that to say, all over the world.
If you have time only to read one weekly magazine, make it this superlative one. Since the day I first turned it pages, reading the New Yorker has been as necessary, and as life-giving, as the air I breathe.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Bountiful...but Biased. , February 4, 2007
I have to admit that I'm a big fan of the New Yorker. To me it embodies the phase je ne sais quoi. There are not too many magazines out there offering up the type of information and entertainment which it does. Its reporting is exceptional and I greatly enjoy the extended pieces on topics which other journals don't explore in the same detail. To the denizen of New York, its early page descriptions of city life are intriguing and undoubtedly invaluable even if they are bewildering to the non-resident (like this reviewer). I also enjoy its art and its cartoons. The one reason that I cannot give it more than a three star rating is due to the rampant leftist bias of its political coverage. This is something which it needs to be more honest about. In the most recent issue, I read a The Talk of the Town concerning the State of the Union Address and was appalled by the partisan slant of its writer who happens to be the senior editor, Hendrik Hertzberg. The skewed prism in which he views the world was so obvious that I began laughing. He mentions the Republican minority's vain efforts to respond after Johnson's speech in 1966 along with the weakness of Dole's minority rebuttal in 1996, but then raves about the great work done by James Webb the other night. What a surprise! Then he plays the shill for the Democratic Party by pretending that they have presented a policy for Iraq when they clearly have not. A truly honest and reputable publication should inform readers of the angle from which they process political events, but the New Yorker fails to do so. This a black mark against an otherwise outstanding magazine.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 This mag is fantastic., January 11, 2007
Great stories, habitually written very well. I think it's a keeper.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A Magaizine for Everyone, December 18, 2006
One of the spotlight reviews referred to NY readers as a secret society or an elite. I'm sure this is tongue in cheek because the New Yorker really is a magazine for everyone to enjoy if they can get past its intimidating rep.
I got sucked into the New Yorker because I picked up a roommate's copy and to my surprise became absorbed by, of all things, a story about problems with mail delivery. i thought it would be boring (which was my perception about the magazine) but couldn't get over how interesting it was. I became a subscriber and have been (with a few interruptions) a faithful reader ever since. I always find interesting things to read and I've found the magazine to be a great guide to topics that I normally would not have been interested in and I am better informed because of it. The magazine is fearless in its reporting even if its stories challenge society's sacred cows. Elizabeth Kolbert's recent series on climate change is one example of the New Yorker's outstanding reporting.....it was the clincher for me in terms of understanding how overwhelming the evidence is for global warming and how imminent the threat is.
Since I cut my teeth on the New Yorker during the Tina Brown years I've always had a soft spot for that time in the magazine's history. I lived in a very small town at the time and I always found the magazine to be a great guide to a different world that was/is very hip, funny and smart. The actual pieces are still that way but I find some of the editorials somewhat knee-jerk albeit written in a very articulate way. I guess I'm the type of reader who likes to absorb information and come to my own conclusions about things and there is something a little musty about the mindset of the editorial writers....it just feels a bit ivory tower. However that is a very small complaint: for political reporting, sports, culture, world affairs, and the occasional slice of life quirky tale the New Yorker is a great passport to a fascinating world.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Some of the finest long non- fiction pieces, November 1, 2006
Although I often disagree with the 'New Yorker' politically and find the writing of Seymour Hersh offensive I believe that the 'New Yorker' publishes exceptionally fine pieces of non- fiction. I stress the non- fiction because this is what interests me in 'the New Yorker now'.Once it was the fiction of Salinger, Singer, of S.J. Perelman. But in recent years it has been the writing of Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopin and a number of others.
This is without speaking of the special feeling of class the New Yorker gives, its still topnotch cartoons, the 'On the Town' feature, and the first-rate 'Talk of the Town ' calendar.
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