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Article: The Magazine Reader; Reviewing the Old & the New Yorker
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- The Washington Post
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- February 27, 1990
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The New Yorker's anniversary issue (Feb. 26) is as good a measure
of the magazine in the Robert Gottlieb era, now three years old, as
you may find. Consider the special pleasures of Diane Ackerman
parsing the life and language of whales, Ian Frazier fracturing
legalese in "Coyote v. Acme," John Updike delighting in "The World
Treasury of Science Fiction," Mary Jo Salter casting skaters in poesy
and Joan Didion explaining to dunderheads how Los Angeles and the Los
Angeles Times, once "synonymous," are no longer what they once were.
The same may be said for the New Yorker, to whose pages
advertisers no longer throng. The editorial content is different now
than under William Shawn: more ...