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DiscountDelight - Harper's Magazine
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List Price: $83.40
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Manufacturer: Harper's Magazine
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 12
Label: Harper's Magazine
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Harper's Magazine
Number Of Issues: 12
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Studio: Harper's Magazine
Subscription Length: 365
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Customer Rating:
Summary: subscription foul-up
Comment: I've read many positive reviews of this magazine and I did receive, several months ago, a trial issue. After sending in the subscription fee, I was billed again. I wrote a note letting them know that the check had been endorsed and deposited. Yesterday, I got a notice telling me my subscription had expired after one issue. I give up. It might be good, but customer service is really lousy. What a disappointment.
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Summary: A rich mix with bias to the Left
Comment: Harper's has been in business since 1850 and has published some of the greatest American- writers , from Mark Twain on down. Its editor and tone- setter is the veteran journalist Lewis Lapham. It publishes fiction, and articles including interesting symposia on many aspects of American economic, political and cultural life. It attracts the big - names in all areas, and also provides a lot of human - interest material, statistical curiosities, historical information and stories.
For some reason which I do not fully understand it has never been my great favorite. And in the old days I preferred 'the Atlantic' and the 'Saturday Review of Literature ' to it. Of course one of the features of 'Harper's is its book- reviews done by among others today, John Leonard.
I suppose what has soured me a bit on 'Harper's' is its bias to the political left.
But that withstanding it still provides a rich mix of articles of high quality.
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Summary: Slow death of thoughtful liberalism
Comment: There was a time when liberalism had a connotation of deep thinking, tolerance, and openness to healthy, civil debate.
No longer. And HARPER'S is a perfect symbol for all that ails the Left. To call this magazine "Left leaning" is a farce. It doesn't lean...it completely, totally, enthusiastically, and blindly tumbles and falls into the "Far Left" swamp. The tone is often hysterically and shrilly partisan, reflecting the ongoing deafness and disconnection that the leftist media elites have towards the mainstream of America.
The quality of the writing and feature selection has declined precipitously through recent years. This rag is about as credible now as THE GUARDIAN, NATIONAL ENQUIRER, or, come to think of it, The New York TIMES! Save your money, LOL!
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Summary: Where is it??
Comment: So I ordered the magazine in Nov. 6, 2005. Its now Feb. 22nd, 2006 and the magazines (since I also ordered the Smithsonian and Scientific American) are nowhere to be seen. Of course, my account was quickly charged and at this pace, I'm guessing the whole genomic structure of all living organisms in this planet will be decoded before I receive any of them... so if you actually want to read this excellent magazine, it might be a better idea to get somewhere else...
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Summary: magazine in decline
Comment: I dont enjoy this publication at all anymore, dont know if editorial leadership has changed
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Editorial Reviews:
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Literary, brainy, and left-leaning, Harper's Magazine is an American institution (the first issue was dated June 1850). Its clean, type-heavy design shouts "serious readers only": many pages are two columns of text, period, and the illustrations are mostly art (often photographic) and artistic adornments. The reading, though, is what matters. It's substantive and often sublime. Along with lengthy, thoughtful, frequently controversial articles on politics and culture, you'll find essays, short fiction, in-depth reporting, and a few book reviews. Bylines routinely represent leading writers and thinkers of the day. Standing features include the much-copied but rarely equaled "Harper's Index," in which statistics tell stories; "Readings," a section of excerpts ranging in length from a few lines to thousands of words; and "Annotation," in which a real-life document is reproduced and "explained," usually to devastating political or cultural effect. Each issue is a full meal for the mind. --Nicholas H. Allison
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