The Boston Globe, July 5th, 1992
To journalism's faithful, The New Yorker is the Latin Mass. It is the standard against which other stuff is yarded off, held up to the light, and compared for warp, woof and whistle-content. As a venerated tradition whose moltings are measured in micro-spasms, the magazine casts a shadow in the print world far longer than its subscriber list. Its slick pages test the abilities of writers, the judgment of editors and the patience of readers. Heavy going, some of it. Very heavy. But the package was the best-in-show, decade in, decade out. Over-thumbed New Yorkers are as essential to the core dec...
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