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Binding: Magazine First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Format: Magazine Subscription Issues Per Year: 10 Label: The Atlantic Magazine Type: Consumer magazine Manufacturer: The Atlantic Number Of Issues: 10 Publisher: The Atlantic Studio: The Atlantic Subscription Length: 365
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Editorial Reviews: Founded in 1857, The Atlantic is one of America's great thought leader magazines. It features ground-breaking articles on politics, social trends, education, literature and arts. Famous for its excellent writing and artistic quality, The Atlantic has won more National Magazine Awards than any other monthly magazine. The Atlantic stories change minds through their fair, unbiased approach and respect for facts. The Atlantic presents the smartest, bravest thinking on the biggest, most important ideas of our time, entertaining readers while stimulating their minds and their civic spirits.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The slow decline of a great magazine Comment: I started reading The Atlantic in 2004. Back then The Atlantic provided insightful and interesting articles covering Iraq and Afghanistan, and occasionally included some fiction. In the last five years, I have witnessed the decline of this great magazine. The Atlantic has abandoned its literary roots by eliminating the fiction section from its monthly publication. Instead fiction is now published in an annual issue purchased on the newsstand. The quality of magazine has declined since The Atlantic moved its offices from Boston to Washington D.C. Recent covers have included tacky and cheesy headlines designed to capture attention and are more appropriate for a tabloid than The Atlantic. Examples have included - The Britney Show - The Passion of Alec Baldwin - If Kim Jong Il Used Facebook Customer Rating: Summary: Excepcionalmente buena Comment: Este año 2009, la revista The Atlantic cambió su aspecto, gracias a la brillante intervención de Pentagram. Ahora en tipografía Mercury, Bodoni y Gothic Title, parece más leíble. Pero lo que no cambió fue su altísima calidad periodística. Como pocas publicaciones, porfiadamente, sigue apostando a artículos de largo aliento, 7,9,11 páginas, fácil. Además su enfoque, no sólo de interés para EE.UU., sino para Occidente, en general. Ensayos bien informados, casi siempre dan «otra vuelta de tuerca» a los tópicos. Punto aparte merece la crítica de libros que realiza Benjamin Shwarz, un lujo para estos tiempos. Probablemente el mejor crítico de su país. Customer Rating: Summary: 1857 versus 2009 Comment: The Atlantic Monthly was founded primarily as a "literary and culture commentary magazine" for and by local authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whitter, and James Russell Lowell back in 1857. On February 1, 1862, The Atlantic Monthly was the first to publish Julia Ward Howe's BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. Until recently the magazine was known mainly as a "New England literary magazine". The Atlantic too has shrugged off its roots, no longer publishing much fiction beyond a summer special. Things have greatly changed between 1857 and 2009. I started reading The Atlantic Monthly, or The Atlantic, as they now call it, back in 1963 while serving in the military. Read it all the way through college into the 70s and 80s, etc. While I go back to Elizabeth Drew, Ward Just, James Fallows, Edward Weeks, and who can forget Phoebe Lou Adams, among others, I find today's magazine worthwhile if for no other reason than the book reviews and writer profiles that frequently occur. As with most magazines of today, The Atlantic Monthly is no better, no worse than most, though much less than it was once. Though it is more colorful than in prior years, it still has a lack luster to it. And the logo, The Atlantic, now in use while new to many readers, is the way the logo appeared back in the 1940s and 1950s. Sometimes I think the high money-bright idea people at the magazine are too clever for their shirts, I mean positions. I really mark The Atlantic's decline from the mid-1970s, various and sundry ailments from which it has never bounced back. I assume the magazine has changed hands at least once, no longer coming from Boston but from Washington, D.C. I think The Atlantic's guidelines and direction have changed too through the years and doesn't always succeed. Undecided whether to be a literary magazine, a political magazine, a "People" knockoff, or a combination of all. However, as many reviews listed here indicate, The Atlantic doesn't always succeed nor please its subscribers. But for the occasional 'good' feature and the book/author information offered I will stick with them. And as with many monthlies, they are now reduced down to 10 issues a year rather than 12. You receive 2 combined issues plus 8 others, that too seems the contemporary trend (helps with summer vacations and winter holidays). I prefer The Economist to most other magazines but the cost is far too prohibitive at $127.00 per year. So The Atlantic is my next choice, good or not so good. Semper Fi. Customer Rating: Summary: kind of wimpy Comment: OK, the articles in The Atlantic are really good but it seems like a somewhat equivocal magazine, like the editors sit on both sides of all kinds of fences and try to maximize their readership by carefully picking articles that will not go too far in any particular direction. During the election season they had a nice photo of McCain on the cover and then a rather menacing photo of Obama--one of those few photos that make him look like an angry Malcolm X kind of figure--and then after he won they put a very nice photo of him on the cover and have been very glowing about him ever since. I don't find that this magazine goes as deep as it should, considering its age and venerable status. It's really good and the editors get the cream of the crop to pick from--every good writer would want to be published in it--but I feel somewhat let down by it. In other words, it's seen better days....and years... Customer Rating: Summary: Good Stuff Comment: Look forward to reading this magazine every month if and only if they have an article or two especially by Jeffrey Goldberg, Robert D. Kaplan or Mark Bowden. Other than that I do not buy this magazine. The new issue that had Mark Bowden's review of US Air Force was magnificent. They should have more Christopher Hitchens material too. All in all, 4 stars for this magazine.