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| Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
List Price: $196.18
Buy New: $39.95
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 38
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
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Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent - but beware the leftist slant November 3, 2002
David K. Hill (Murrieta, CA United States)
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
The New Yorker is a weekly magazine that selects articles submitted from writers (Truman Capote was a regular) around the world on a wide range of topics. Beware, however, of the decided leftist posture permeating most. Virtually all political articles slam Bush and Republicans in general and extol Democrats. It is a reflection of the editors who are, after all, New Yorkers. One simply needs to be cautious and watch out for "facts" that are really nothing more than opinion.
Not Just for New Yorkers July 31, 2003
Mollie Taylor (Atlanta, GA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I started taking this magazine, my roommate asked me, "But isn't that for New Yorkers?" I answered her saying that, yes, there was some information for New Yorkers but that the majority of the magazine could be read by anybody. My high school English teacher, the best teacher I have had, recommended this magazine to our class even against the wishes of most of our parents, who were largely very conservative. I took The New Yorker my junior year of high school but then stopped taking it because I rarely had enough time to read it. Now I am taking it again, vowing to *make* time to read it. The content is exceptional. The writing is better even than most books. And of course the cartoons are quite witty. Everyone should take this magazine, especially anyone working to improve their education and reading and writing skills.
 Bountiful...but Biased. February 4, 2007
Bernard Chapin (CHICAGO! USA)
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
 pretentious.... March 30, 2007
Krishna Lakshminarasimhan
7 out of 31 found this review helpful
the language in many of the articles is very good.. but the content in general is pretentious and irrelevant.
have to be one of those smug people who would enjoy the smell of their own flatulence (courtesy: south park) to enjoy this magazine as a regular read.
 Smart writing on engaging topics October 27, 2001
Meredith F. Han (Seattle WA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I currently subscribe to the New Yorker. Generally I find each issue contains 2-3 "meaty" feature articles really worth reading, a bunch of listings for NYC cultural events & a fiction piece. I could care less about the last two items, but the magazine is worth getting for the feature articles alone. Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point) is my favorite regular contributor, though the writing is uniformly of high quality. The articles often deal with quirky topics you're unlikely to find anywhere else.
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