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Article: New Yorker reflected the culture, author says
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1999
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The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury. By
Mary F. Corey. Harvard University Press. 256 pages. $25.95.
The New Yorker remains our most prestigious magazine, a showcase
for some of the best American writing.
But the glitzy changes wrought during Tina Brown's reign,
especially the shameless fawning over President Clinton, Hollywood
deal makers and other icons of our celebrity culture, have left many
readers with a wistful disease. They look to the time when William
Shawn edited the publication as a lost paradise of high-mindedness.
Well, nostalgiacs, beware. As Mary F. Corey reveals in her
probing history of the magazine's distinguished days of the late