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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: 24
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:
 Absorbing and Relevant April 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Among current magazines for discerning readers, I find The New Yorker the very best. Current topics, issues, and/or personalities are covered at length and in depth with relevance to the context of today's world. Each issue contains a highly readable fiction piece relevant to today's world. Throughout the magazine the writing itself is of the finest quality. I look forward to my weekly "fix" of this outstanding magazine.
 pretentious.... March 30, 2007
7 out of 35 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.
 Bias abounds, yet a good read March 5, 2007
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
As another reviewer recently said, the bias is indeed laughable...unless I suppose you share the viewpoints of the very liberal editors. Reading the front matter of the current issue, which contains short snippets of current affairs editorials and such, I was easily able to refute every point the author was trying to make. It is the same hyper-liberal sludge that is so far to the left that is easily passes for a joke.
Otherwise, despite the bias that may permeate the magazine, the main articles are lengthy, very well written, often unique and interesting, and intellectually satisfying.
While some viewpoints are amusingly bias to the sensible reader, the rest passes for excellent journalism.
 Bountiful...but Biased. February 4, 2007
7 out of 13 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.
This mag is fantastic. January 11, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great stories, habitually written very well. I think it's a keeper.
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