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The New Yorker is an amazingly humane publication. Not snarky, not haughty, not what many people (who do not read it) think it is. This piece is a representative sample of their journalism.

The New Yorker is like Burning Man - people who've never experienced it have strongly held, fiercely incorrect assumptions about what it is.

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@matthewn (can't reply directly to you) - hah! You're right, Anthony Lane is hilarious. And the opera reviews can be boring if you (like me) are not into opera. But you know what I mean =)

I love the New Yorker, but the whole "goings on about town" section is obviously useless if you don't live in New York.

> Not snarky

I see you've never read Anthony Lane's film reviews. :)

Downvotes not justified. Lane's reviews are distressingly snarktastic.

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