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| Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
List Price: $196.18
Buy New: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 33
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:
 Not for the West Coast September 24, 2007
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you like to read about NY restaurants, shows, gossip, and the New York Times is just not enough this is for you. If you don't care about NY and dislike the NYT the New Yorker is not the magazine for you.
I subscribed to this magazine for a year and really tried to like it, but it just did not work. Most of the stories are East Coast centric and fairly like minded when it comes to political and economic views.
One Amazon reviewer suggested The New Yorker is like a club, perhaps, but if you don't live on the streets of NY, it's a club you don't really care to join.
 In no time flat! August 1, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first issue arrived in my mailbox in less than three weeks! The publication, of course, is great. Definitely snobbish, but covers a variety of topics and is extremely well-written.
Stronger Than Ever May 17, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been subscribing to the New Yorker for twenty years now and have never thought of stopping, a testament to the magazine's consistency. After 9/11 and the Iraq invasion of 2003, the magazine's reportage has been in my opinion the best, comprehensive, thorough, and never academic as it finds the narrative that resonates the most. The title New Yorker is not provincial; to the contrary, the title points to a cosmopolitan anti-tribalist sensibility. The only area of criticism for me are the short stories. About half are great; the other half I could do without. The cartoons have gotten stronger, especially with the contest in which professional illustrators make crazy cartoon scenarios and readers--brilliant readers I might add--provide captions after which the rest of us vote on the finalists. Great move. I read the contest captions first thing.
 New Yorker Magazine May 6, 2007
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
i love this magazine... it keeps me in touch with the beat of NYC....(that is the beginning where they have blurps on what is going on in the galleries, cinema, concerts ets).... On the other side... the essay writing is hard to read... I think that is because the writers are paid by the word... BUT the cartoons are GREAT!!!
Journal of Liberal Serendipity. Try it now! April 19, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
`The New Yorker' is touted, especially by the publisher's advertising copy, as `the very best magazine in the country, and maybe the best magazine ever'. If there was ever a statement to raise the hackles of those who are disposed to criticize a publication, that is surely it. I happen to be someone who has read and liked the magazine for upwards of forty years. I even liked it before they added the Table of Contents, and I typically begin reading it from the back to the front, and often don't even get to the Table of Contents by the time the next issue arrives.
Since I don't live within easy commuting distance of New York City, I rarely bother with the `Goings on About Town', except for the thumbnail movie reviews in `Now Playing', as they will also be playing at my local multiplex. That leaves the reviews, the fiction, the poetry, the `in depth' articles, the cartoons, `The Talk of the Town', and the advertisements. It may be odd to cite the ads, but next to the cartoons, that was my favorite thing to read when I borrowed my uncle's copies to read as a teenager. And, I am certainly not the only one to be in that situation, as the Levenger Company claims great responses to their tiny marginal ads in `The New Yorker'.
Getting back to this `best magazine' claim, I find it difficult, especially with the great variety of magazines serving a great variety of purposes. How can any one say they are better than `Playboy', `National Geographic', `Natural History', `TV Guide', `Reader's Digest', or `Time'? Whenever I review a book, I always compare it to other books that address, or claim to address the same audience. I reconcile my usual practice with my devotion to this magazine and believe that it reduces to a matter of the quality of the writing. All magazines contain the written word, and I suggest that `The New Yorker' writing is as good or better than most.
Please note that the quality of the writing is NOT the same as the quality of the ideas about which the magazine's authors write! There is no question that the opinion of `The New Yorker' writers and editors is distinctly liberal, possibly as much as the best-known liberal opinion journals such as `The New Republic'. But `The New Yorker' is NOT representing itself as a journal of news (aside from its news of performance dates and times). It is an old style opinion journal harking back to the days of H. L. Mencken, `The Smart Set', and `The American Mercury'. While the magazine's agenda is liberal, its style is intellectual, not visceral. One is less likely to find the kind of informal fallacies in its articles that you will in the writing or speaking of many other commentators with a distinct agenda, including everyone from Bill O'Reilly on the right to James Carville on the left.
One of the best known aspects of the magazine is its distinctive style, which primarily involves not taking itself too seriously. In case you haven't noticed, the magazine's trademark cartoon character, Eustice Tilly, intently staring at a butterfly through a monocle, was adopted not to embody, but to poke fun at a certain Upper East Side, Central Park East hoity-toity attitude. The most concrete embodiment of this modestly urbane air is the writing style of the pieces in `The Talk of the Town'. While many different people have written them over the years, I swear the editors inject a serum into every new writer that inoculates them with the disposition to write that same low-key matter of fact tone I have read for the last 40 years. I have even gone so far as to write parodies of this style, which has been applied to virtually every subject under the sun.
This brings up what may be the most entertaining aspect of the magazine. It knows practically no bounds to the subjects it will cover in a given year. It has been known to devote a goodly number of columns to `The Sporting Scene', and it also dedicates a sizable amount of space to pieces of `investigative journalism', especially of U.S. affairs in the world by the likes of Seymour Hersh. But, it also carries many distinctive articles on food, horticulture, science, the arts in general, travel, history, and you name it! A steady diet of reading `The New Yorker' will never leave you without something interesting to inject into a conversation.
Then, of course, there are the cartoons. I confess, there are some cartoons to which I never do really get the point. But then, there are some, albeit very few, where the absence of a point is the point. Otherwise, one must be in fairly close touch with popular culture and current events to get many of the cartoons. But then, that's the fun of it, knowing you are `in the know' well enough to appreciate a reference to Keith Richard and ashes!
By far my favorite part of `The New Yorker' is the book reviews. I confess that I have probably confounded more than a few readers of my reviews by the roundabout style I copied from `The New Yorker' way with books. The very best thing about many of the reviews is that they will cover two or more books on the same subject in one review. Thus, not only do you hear which may be the better, but why, in comparison to a work which is doing the same thing. I do confess to a bit of frustration with the movie reviews. This is one place where the laid back style, rarely showing enthusiasm for anything, can be a bit annoying, but I will always trust that `The New Yorker' movie review will be a better reflection of my tastes than virtually any other review.
Unfortunately, I never read the fiction or the poetry, since Woody Allen stopped contributing material.
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