New York Times Magazine. Included with the Sunday New York Times,
229 West 43rd Street, New York NY 10036, Tel: 212-556-1234.
Sometimes, one digs out "The New York Times Magazine" from the mighty
pile of the Sunday "Times" and finds something fresh: e.g., new investigative
reporting from Seymour Hersh, or a deft Christopher Hitchens essay that
manages to say something sane about the polarized "cultural literacy" debate.
More often, the magazine seems to be playing catch-up -- running derivative
pieces on the same personalities and hot-button issues one has read about
elsewhere.
No doubt I'm predisposed to be critical, given how many of the
magazine's regular departments grate on my nerves. The "About Men" column,
for instance, is written by yuppie males who regularly draw on their
expensive educations to write clever denunciations of their fathers --
the poor sods who paid for those educations in the first place.
But the weekly crossword puzzle, I'm told, is excellent.
-- Steve Badrich
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