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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | Week after week, The New Yorker keeps its reader current. Subscribe now and don't miss the New Yorker's famous fiction and poetry, book and film review, its incisive looks at politics, people and the way we live, and of course, those CARTOONS. In-depth reporting, surprising opinions, sharp wit, the best in prose, poetry, and the visual arts can all be yours for just $1 an issue! | | |
Who Reads The New Yorker?
Readers of The New Yorker are curious about everything the world has to offer. When they become interested in a topic, they want to learn all about it. They are intellectual networkers, launching new ideas and shaping public opinion. And New Yorker readers are 'culture-preneurs" - the people who actively define the cultural scene.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Talk of the Town: Short, witty takes on news and events in and around New York.
- Reporting and essays: Award-winning explorations and revelations of world affairs and national issues, and personal reflection.
- The Critics: Music, dance, theater, film, TV, and arts reviewed and illuminated.
- Fiction and poetry: The best works by the finest writers of our time, both new and established.
- Cartoons: The New Yorker's famous cartoons, with a unique wit all their own.
- Features:The New Yorker is a collection of intelligent, penetrating, and funny voices. A signature mix of politics, world affairs, business, science, arts and letters attracts millions who come to The New Yorker to be informed, to be surprised, to laugh, and to be moved. Recent issues have included Hendrik Hertzberg on the Clinton and Obama showdown; Margaret Talbot on talking animals; James Surowiecki on the Bear Stearn's collapse; David Sedaris on smoking; and fiction by Annie Proulx.
Past Issues:Contributors: Among The New Yorker staff writers, Ken Auletta, who covers the media business and is an authority on the communications industry, is the author of 9 books, including the best-seller Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. Seymour M. Hersh has written for The New Yorker since 1971. He has won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for his investigations into the My Lai massacre, and is the author of eight books, including Chain of Command. The legendary John McPhee, on staff since 1965, teaches writing at Princeton. Jerome Groopman is a Harvard Medical School professor and the author of over 150 scientific articles. His latest book, The Anatomy of Hope, was a best-seller. Magazine Layout:The New Yorker is a readers' magazine. Articles range from short Talk of the Town pieces to in-depth explorations of politics and world affairs. Short reviews of restaurants, movies and the arts in Goings On About Town can be quickly skimmed, while, at the back of the book, longer, richer reviews of selected books, plays and movies can be read at a more leisurely pace. And the dozen or so cartoons in each issue offer their sheer wit and entertainment. Comparisons to Other Magazines:The New Yorker offers the long-form journalism that has all but disappeared in today's media landscape. New Yorker writers are not bound by daily deadlines, and it is not uncommon for them to spend months working on an article. Nor are the writers constrained by a mandated point of view. They are free to follow a story wherever it leads. Advertising: Advertisers include financial service companies, car-makers, luxury goods purveyors, hotels, publishers, and arts events. Small ads throughout the magazine offer a boutique-style shopping experience for everything from customized jewelry and Panama hats, to expedition ship cruises and villa rentals. Awards:The New Yorker is the most-honored magazine in publishing history. It has won 48 National Magazine Awards, the magazine world's equivalent of the Oscars. Its contributors have won many of the major awards, including The Nobel prize and The Pulitzer prize. In 2008, two of the Pulitzer-Prize winning books included work that originally appeared in The New Yorker: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz won the fiction prize and Time and Materials by Robert Hass won for poetry. 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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| | **I've taken a drubbing over this review, but I won't delete it yet. My friend Jeffrey tells me the NY cover was intended in exactly the same spirit as my adoption of Hussein as a middle name. As anyone can see, I've been slammed by friends and strangers in the comments below. My wife wants her next week's New Yorker on schedule or my neck id in the noose. Fine. Probably I overreacted. This upcoming election is critical, and judging by the last, it won't be clean, forthright, honorable. Remember the SwiftBoaters? Here's what I wrote originally:
I've just done so. The July 21, '08 cover shows Barack Obama and his wife dressed as Islamic terrorists, with an American flag burning in the fireplace. It's tasteless and dishonest, and either ill-timed or politically motivated by neo-conservatism. The editors' excuse, that the cartoon was intended to satirize the talk-radio smear campaign against Obama, doesn't convince me at all.
The New Yorker has never shown much respect for the working folk of America, or anything but smug condescension toward rural and small-city people. Its market is obviously the intellectual upper 10%, plus those whose incomes allow them to suppose they belong in that category. Its editors make a point of being too near-sighted to acknowledge the Upper Midwest or the Pacific Coast. The advertisements tell who subscribes: Westin Resorts, Mercedes, Vanguard Financial, CitiBank, Dow Chemical. Its poems are quite often banal. Its famous cartoons are frequently funny, but more frequently smug and pretentious. Over the years, it has printed some immortal stories by Alice Munro, but it also prints crumpled scraps from the wastebasket of Joyce Carol Oates. Besides, I hate its three-column format, which slows my reading speed down by at least 25%.
Nevertheless I've subscribed for decades, though I often don't even open an issue until a friend alerts me to an interesting article. After all, where's the competition? The Atlantic has gone reactionary. Harper's is plodding. The political and economic journals serve a different function. Our "free market" publishing system has resulted in comglomeration and decimation, both in magazines and books.
Looks like this round goes to the internet.
| | The New Yorker -- Now With "Satirical" Lynching Photos | |
| | With the New Yorker's newest "satirical" cover, I suspect that a certain magazine editor might just have satirized himself out of a job.
And as to "satire", isn't that what American Southerners used to call those postcards with lynching photos they sold down there?
| | | Good magazine for contemporary articles. The poetry is pretty bad. The comics are very funny.
| | over 60 years of the new yorker | |
| | I have been subscribing to the New Yorker for more than 60 years. Why stop now? It is excellent.
| | New Yorker rocks and Amazon made it easy | |
| | I love THE NEW YORKER and wanted to give it as a last minute gift. It was easy and inexpensive with Amazon. This is the second subscription I've given through Amazon and will continue subscriptions through them.
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