Re: NY Review of Books

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> No one would argue today that the NYRB is a journal of
> the left, or that it is as comparatively radical as it
> once was. What it does have is some diversity of
> opinion, and a fair number of good articles. Even

Don't get me wrong. I dispute the Nation Magazine's suggestion that the
magazine has become "radicalized" but I do check in on it regulary on
the website and even included on the Marxmail recommended links. It is
one of the few places where you can read a truly discursive treatment of
some thorny question without concerns about length. In contrast, when
the awful Tina Brown took over the New Yorker, the first thing she did
was cut the articles down to suit a readership presumed to be weaned on
MTV, etc.

I absolutely cherish Frederic Crews's items on Freud that have appeared
there frequently. I also would highly recommend a review by Bill
McKibben that appears in the current issue, which is the first time
they've published him as far as I know. McKibben is a New Yorker
regular. Both magazines seem shifting back to mainstream Democratic
Party values, which in this day and age might appear to the untutored as
a kind of molotov cocktail.


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