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Rating: - Stay In Touch With Civilization
For as long as I can remember, and for years before that, The New Yorker has offered intelligent writing (and clever cartoons too) aimed at thinking readers who are assumed to meet a mininum cultural literacy standard. For those of us exiled in the distant territories, it provides hope in the form of 48 doses each year of civilization that remind us of our roots and help prevent descent into barbarism. I think of the regular reading of The New Yorker as a form of therapy to counteract the base influences of People, In Style, Time and similar magazines, each written in a style that presumes a degree of idiocy among its readers. For anyone willing to give The New Yorker a chance (assuming that its current subscribers won't need to read this review), I think that exposure to writers like John McPhee, Ken Auleta, Roger Angell and others, plus doses of a very urbane point of view, can help counteract some of the truly evil influences of modern society and provide a standard of reference that once was common but which has passed us by.
Rating: - Worth the Money
I have subscribed to several magazines over the years and "The New Yorker" continues to be the most consistently satisfying one I receive. I thoroughly enjoy the excellent articles, and always read each issue from cover to cover. The depth and breadth of the reportage is essentially unequaled in magazine journalism. A liberal slant generally exists in the political writing, and while I certainly weary of that and don't find it justifiable, it's not, by any means, a characteristic unique to "The New Yorker".Someone once made the comment that reading "The New Yorker" can make you feel smart without doing anything. There is so much to learn; I find it a great companion to my college history, English, and art courses. I hope the quality of this magazine continues. If so, I will be a subscriber for a long time.
Rating:  - Smart writing on engaging topics
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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