Harper's Magazine Subscription

Pros: Outstanding essays.
Cons: Deceptive cover, too much 80's.

Harper's Special Anniversary Collector's Edition: Celebrating 150 Years of Literature, 1850-2000.

Opinion in a nutshell: weak on the past, strong in the present.

The title of Harper's anniversary edition is misleading. As a...

Pros: Highly informative, highly entertaining, for the wannabe intellectual.
Cons: Highly partisan, highly biased, for the wannabe intellectual.

My cousin, doctoral student in urban studies, and I, doctoral student in economics, share a friendly difference of opinions. Public policy-wise, we disagree on just about everything. For Christmas, she bought me a subscription to Harper’s, I ...

Pros: edifying and informative but also a bunch of fun
Cons: --

Summary: Harper's Magazine successfully walks the fine line between bottom-line drivel and snobby irrelevance.

In writing, there's a fine line between brainless drivel and pseudo-intellectual snobbery. Magazines like Time and...

Pros: Entertaining, informative articles, the Harper's Index, great cryptic crossword.
Cons: Round table forums get polemical.

I have been reading Harper's magazine sporadically for the past fifteen years, and bought my friend James, who reads it faithfully, a subscription all those years ago which he continually renews.

Harper's magazine is an upscale publication...

Pros: Always entertaining, always informative
Cons: none

Harper’s Monthly magazine recently celebrated it’s 150th birthday and it’s easy to see why they’ve managed to stay around for so long. It is probably one of the most intelligent magazines being published today. And not only that, it’s extremely...

Pros: Excellent survey of contemporary Americana in a wide variety of formats
Cons: Lapham is a bit of an egotistical windbag, but I expect he's earned it

Its slight pretensions (long-winded editor, occasional lapses in judgement particularly in regards to post-modern fiction) don't really detract from the overall quality; I've been reading this regularly for about a decade now and am still amazed by it --...

Pros: Intelligent, funny...I'd marry it.
Cons: Only if you don't like smart stuff

There's a nasty rumor floating about that I like to roll around naked on magazines. Well, if that were true--and I'm not saying it is--I would feel honored to roll in Harper's.

I could do without Lewis Lapham's often overly political and...

Pros: Informative, insightful, diverse, entertaining
Cons: New issues arrive to soon, renewal notices border on harassment

Too much too soon, that is, in four words, my Harper's subscription. Each issue is spewing with tasty morsels of information and fresh opinion. It seems as though I just finish savoring the last bite when the latest issue arrives - time to gorge...

Pros: Aptly named
Cons: Makes The New Yorker look like National Review

It is a well-known maxim of leftists that all conservatives are stupid. Being a right-winger myself, I am normally on my guard for opportunities to dispel this myth, but because the following factoid is crucial to my review, just this once I am going to...

Pros: Intelligent and consistent writing
Cons: None

Until this month, I had been procrastinating on purchasing an annual subscription to Harper's. "Surely I don't need to read every issue, and I have so many magazines already," I tried to tell myself. Then I realized the truth, that I had been...

Pros: Easy to read. Really whets the appetite.
Cons: Too many subscription cards included. Do you need more than one?

I consider Harper's a literary launching pad. It has introduced me to writers and topics that I may not have found otherwise. I first read it on holiday when a friend passed me the magazine and said 'look at this'. It was a list of translations of...

Pros: No half-naked models
Cons: No half-naked models

In the three years following its 1933 inception, Esquire sold 10 million copies. It featured stories by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Albert Camus and John Steinbeck, among countless others. Demand fell, however, and the format was changed to...

Pros: It is a magazine, take it for all in all; we shall not look upon its like again.
Cons: The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our Harper's but in ourselves.

Top 10 reasons why I will never let my Harper's subscription run out, no matter how annoying the renewal solicitations are:

10. New Map feature on the last page is sufficiently entertaining to serve as acceptable substitute for Thomas...

Pros: None
Cons: E-opinion is biased and deceitful.

E-opinons erased my review that was negative towards Harpers magazine. I had a subscription problem were Harper's turned me over to a collection agency. Which was all Harper's fault. I posted the problem here, in 2003. E-opinons came along and erased ...

Pros: Fascinating index, humorous short essays.
Cons: So one-sided that I canceled my subscription.

Having been a print subscriber of the Atlantic for several years and an avid reader of the New Republic, the Nation, the American Prospect, and the National Review online, I decided to give Harper's a shot. The first issue I received, March 2003, was of...