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Article: ABOUT TOWN: THE NEW YORKER AND THE WORLD IT MADE.(Review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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ABOUT TOWN: THE NEW YORKER AND THE WORLD IT MADE
BY BEN YAGODA SCRIBNER. 480 PP. $30
Aged seventy-five and still recovering from a tempestuous relationship with a much younger editor, The New Yorker today looks rather exhausted; but in dandified youth and dignified prime it was probably the best magazine in the world. It won plaudits from the start, notably for its brilliant artwork, which so eclipsed the text that in 1925 The New Yorker was hailed as "the best magazine in the world for a person who can not read." This annoyed the first editor, Harold Ross, who was addicted to words. But within a few years critics acknowledged that his so-called "comic ...