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...copies a week, is the highest in its 55-year history. Securely fat and prosperous, The New Yorker is gaining advertising pages while many other major weeklies are not. In its lordly way, the magazine offers no special rates or short-term subscriptions, never invites the reader to "bill me later." Editorially, too, The New Yorker courts writers, not readers. Even the word reader-as in "Would the reader understand this?"-is not heard around the office. The only reader who counts is the elusive and gifted editor, the famously unfamous William Shawn, whose name does not even appear...
...leading the reader along a carefully documented historical trail, he seduces the reader into accepting his undocumented conclusion that the United States ultimately bears responsibility for the Cambodian tragedy. To the otherwise uninformed reader, it comes as a shocking revelation to discover that Prince Sihanouk--with whom Shawcross heavily empathizes--provides evidence which thoroughly demolishes most of Shawcross' conclusions and substantially weakens his others...
...book, an easily read translation, uses Tito's rise to power as the background for the analysis. Djilas assumes some familiarity with Yugoslavian history on the part of the reader, and at times the details are confusing. Yet to follow Djilas's criticisms of Tito--the major goal of the book--one only needs a rudimentary history knowledge...
...disagree with your assessment of the Today staff. Jane Pauley is an excellent news reader and an adept interviewer who asks questions I like answered. Tom Brokaw is far from frosty. He's competent and likable...
...Judging from Raymond Sokolov's biography, Liebling did not think he was an innovator but a perpetuator of a writing tradition at least as old as Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Liebling's prose remain s Raymond Sokolov convincing because it rarely asks the reader to believe more than the author saw, heard, smelled, touched and, of course...