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| Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
List Price: $196.18
Buy New: $39.95
You Save: $156.23 (80%)
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:
 Purposeful Reading January 4, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have ordered the New Yorker for two years. I cannot say that I have had the time to read all (or, for that matter, most) articles in every edition, but when I do find a chance to get through the magazine--or an article that catches my eye--I find the New Yorker very rewarding. The writing in the New Yorker does not always match my opinions, and neither does it always have a "literary merit" that most people attribute to it (this can usually be found in the "Fiction" sections). But, I don't always want the writing to have oustanding literary merit.
The articles in the New Yorker are logical and--what I think differs it from most other magazines--remarkably descriptive. After reading an article on the critic and author Edmund Wilson, I learn the most intimate details of his life. The New Yorker also provides information about the lives of his contemporaries. I can get a view of his whole era.
As a student, I can say that reading the New Yorker gives me a comprehensive knowledge. It doesn't narrowly focus on one topic, but instead connects the subject to many events of a time period.
Join good writing and Reading November 1, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
There are many reasons to love this great magazine and a few reasons not to. One of the reasons not to is there many ads, but if you want to read what great writers write you have to make reading The New Yorker on your top 10 list.
 relevant October 24, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
in a world where hype and superficial journalism has reached new dimensions, the new yorker is an amazing world in itself. there goes rarely an article left unread by the time a new issue arrives, the lure of many worlds to explore and promise to really learn about life as it is now. most of all, it's definitely worth the time.
Nostalgic reasons October 19, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The New Yorker has made it's way to our kitchen table since I was tall enough to see over the edge of the table. My Mom was an avid reader and now I buy the magazine, cause she would have wanted it that way.
I like it for the cartoons and I'm absolutely naive when it comes to politics, so I need this magazine to get some idea of what is going on.
With all the Blogging and other nonsense, I feel secure that the New Yorker does diligent fact checking before it prints something, so I rely on it where I won't rely on news printed on the internet.
Regards, Lara
Left Wing? You must be kidding. September 15, 2005
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
Along with the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker is a must weekly read for me. I read it, cover to cover except for the ads, for 45 minutes to an hour each night before sleep. Roger Angell on baseball is the best; Lane and Denby tag teamming on the movie reviews; Joan Acocella on dance (Dance! I've read more about it than I've ever seen), and the list goes on.
Left wing? Several reviewers here said the magazine is left wing. This is hilarious. Obviously these people have never read a left wing maqgazine, and such comments only illustrate the extent to which the political spectrum in the US has shifted rightward. For left wing try: The Nation, The Progressive, Dissent, or Monthly Review. The New Yorker is as middle brow bourgeois as it gets.
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