New Yorker The Magazine

Pros: Fascinating from cover to cover
Cons: Can't keep up with all the issues!

The New Yorker is justifiably famous for it's cartoons. Hilarious and provocative, they are the first thing that I look at when reading The New Yorker. Fortunately, there is so much more in this magazine that, despite coming out practically every week,...

Pros: Writing, cartoons, willing to take sides
Cons: None to speak of......

I've been reading this magazine for almost 45 years. Actually, when I was a kid, I stuck to the listings and the cartoons. As I got older, I started READING The New Yorker. It began when Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" was serialized over 4 ...

Pros: diversity, arts coverage, fiction
Cons: supposedly funny cartoons really *not at all* funny

I run to my mailbox every Tuesday in anticipation of the New Yorker -- a dazzling combination of politics, movie reviews, theater notes, book commentary and great fiction. There have been weeks when I was disappointed, but very few, in my 3 years of...

Pros: Superb features, excellent reviews, outstanding fiction, amusing covers
Cons: Really none

Last summer, a doctor who regularly contributes articles to The New Yorker, wrote one on nausea. Like many New Yorker pieces, this was one long article, about 10 pages if I recall correctly.

I could not put it down. The sun set, the spouse,...

Pros: Everything
Cons: There's only fiction issue a year

About five years ago, my dad, a former New Yorker saw an commercial advertising subscriptions to the New Yorker magazine. The subscription was originally for him, and while his name still appears on the cover every week, we renew it each year as much...

Pros: writing, substance, quality
Cons: price, lack of more poems

The New Yorker has long been held as the gold standard for literary publishing. To get your name in print in its pages is truly something to write home about, even in a world where everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame. With the departure of Tina Brown,...

Pros: A great magazine to keep you up with the arts.
Cons: Writing and Art have dulled down since Tina Brown left.

I have been a New Yorker reader for 45 years and there were few changes in that time. Then Tina Brown came in and sparked it with flashy design and snappy content. She cut the length of the notorious maundering articles and tightened the editing. A...

Pros: Informative and enlightening
Cons: NONE

Where do you go when you want to be enlightened, informed, and amused? Why--it's to The New Yorker magazine!

While browsing through my favorite bookstore I picked The New Yorker. I was absorbed immediately. It features short...

Pros: Excellent writing, movie reviews and music reviews
Cons: I wish I had more time to read everything.

What a combo: The best articles of any magazine in the U.S., great movie reviews, and hip music reviews. What else do you want?
I've read the New Yorker for at least 14 years. It has become less stodgy, but it still contains the best stuff from the...

Pros: Fascinating articles on real subjects, great reviews, great cartoons, great editorial slant.
Cons: Weak fiction and poetry.

Maybe this will be easier if I list the reasons why I love this magazine:

1. It's weekly. How the editors build such a deeply considered, timely magazine each week I have no idea, but somehow they pull it off in high style. Time and again,...

Pros: Simply the Best - funny, smart, topical
Cons: Occasionally self-important and dull

The New Yorker isn't just any magazine - it is The Magazine. Despite the fact that it may or may not have only 800,000 paid subscriptions, or that it may or may not be losing a few hundred thousand dollars per year, this venerable book contains some of...

Pros: Excellent Production, Vast Coverage of a Vast World
Cons: Some pharmaceutical ads beginning to appear.

=============For the first issue after the disaster at the World Trade Center, dated September 24 - the Cover had to be special. It was. It was a plain solid black with the Magazine Title, date and price.============= I cannot think of a more...

Pros: Funny cartoons, Great articles , good price
Cons: The editors have become more conservative, not as much debut fiction

I always take time off every Wednesday to read my New Yorker. This magazine continues to impress me every week, every esoteric topic become intriguing when written by superb writers. The cartoons are both funny and meaningful. I think the New Yorker...

Pros: Much more than great cartoons!
Cons: It's a challenge to read it all before next week's issue arrives

When I was a small child visiting my well-heeled grandparents in Portland, Oregon, a few of the latest issues of The New Yorker were inevitably displayed on the antique coffee table, along with Business Week and the occasional Sunset. I would grow bored...

Pros: Poetry, cartoons and articles
Cons: Hard to get through quickly

Call me a snob, but I love this magazine. I used to read my Dad's when he would get it, but for years I got away from it. Recently at work, I struck up a conversation with someone about it. I took a bunch of back issues that she was going to throw...