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| Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
List Price: $196.18
Buy New: $39.95
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 18
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 47
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 47
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7T5
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
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| Customer Reviews:
 As necessary as the air I breathe June 22, 2006
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
Best Magazine in America June 21, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
The New Yorker is consistently the most well-written, readable, and important magazine in America. For anyone wondering how the Abu Ghraib scandal broke: New Yorker. For anyone wondering which magazine wrote a prescient profile on John Kerry when he was perhaps the biggest long shot for the 2004 Democratic nomination: New Yorker. Simply put, the New Yorker, as many reviewers have already acknowledged, is the best written and most substantial magazine hitting newstands every week.
For those who criticize the magazine as "snobby," feel free to go back to Time or Newsweek, which dilute what might be good reporting with hundreds of ads and the twice-a-year "Who Was the Real Jesus?" issue to perk up sales.
For those who criticize the magazine as too liberal, I will be the first to admit that liberalism (in its traditional sense) is a motivating factor in the magazine's editorial decisions. But if you think the New Yorker "tows the Democratic line," I'd advise you to compare it to the Nation or other such publications. Normally, the New Yorker's reportage is so intricate and off-the-beaten-path that politics rarely enters the debate.
Pick up an issue and actually read every article (even the long ones). It's incredibly rewarding.
The classic classy magazine February 27, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
'New Yorker' has a look of its own , a feel of its own, a flavor of its own.
It is one of the great magazines.
Its cartoons are classics of the genre.
It provides the calendar of NY events in a quite detailed and helpful way.
Its smartness, sharpness are felt usually in the 'Talk of the Town' feature.
If nothing else, historically, it has its place as the locus of publication of some of America's greatest fiction. Salinger and 'the New Yorker' go together. Isaac Singer and Updike also published some of their best work in 'The New Yorker'.
The new non- fiction star Malcolm Gladwell did his breakthrough work in 'The New Yorker'.
The 'New Yorker' has each week a long feature article often of the greatest possible interest. The magazine seems to bring out the highest quality in its writers.
With all this I nonetheless have strong criticism of the 'New Yorker' especially in regard to one investigative reporter who in my opinion has often shown more imagination than investigation, Seymour Hersh.
I know that the general opinion is that David Remnick, the current editor has done a great job in bringing up circulation and restoring quality to the journal.
Sophisticated New Yorker February 9, 2006
This is without question one of the best magazines in the country. It is topical and the stories are well written. The cartoons are a bit hit and miss, but that's a minor quibble. This is one of the few magazines that is consistantly good, and I often read it from cover to cover, some say it's a bit liberal and that's fair, but it does not take away from the fact that it is a wonderful read. Even though at times I vehamently disagree with a commentary I always feel like I have been educated, and I come away feeling wiser, and if you can say that about a magazine then you are really saying something. I dare say, anyone reading this review probably has an opinion of this famous magazine, but if you are one of the few that is on the fence, so to speak, then I hope I have encouraged you to give it a try, I'll bet you will be glad you did.
 Fun, liberal magazine but obviously a strong New York focus January 13, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you want to know about and read reviews about current New York city entertainment, the New Yorker gives a great overview. Includes about 6 to 8 well written current affairs articles, with a definite liberal slant.
Great book reviews and essays -- often about books and authors that are not in the mainstream fiction and non-fiction booklists.
Avant-garde short stories by both new and established authors.
And, of course, the cartoons. Surprisingly, these are generally fairly benign with little political or current affairs focus.
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