Word: yorkerism
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Brown is far too intelligent to import wholesale the Vanity Fair formula, or to attempt a baldfaced reprise of her resuscitating strategies at that publication. Her New Yorker contains vestigial remains of her predecessors' magazine...
...Yorker has seen a predictable shift in content during this past year, an expected nod to demographics reflected in a pandering to baby-boomer interests. The cartoons, still penned by the old favorites, seem out of place in this new hybrid...
...testimony to the increasingly schizophrenic character of the Brown New Yorker. Literary gems like Francine du Plessix Gray's review of the Flaubert-Sand epistolary relationship as documented by assorted biographers share pages with tawdry baubles such as John Seabrook's near-hagiographic piece on an obscure art director (whose 15 minutes are ticking rapidly away). And why, oh why do we need to learn anything more about Kate Moss, the waifish model with the look of utter imbecility...
...mystique of the New Yorker has dissipated. The magazine is now indistinguishable from any of the other weeklies on the newsstands. It has metamorphosed into near-banality with its increased focus on Hollywood's denizens, whose passions are largely divorced from any kind of informed analysis. This New Yorker shows every sign of lying supine before the Philistine hordes. Brown is not solely responsible for this transformation. She merely midwifed the process...
Some of the magazine's writing is enjoyable, although much of its fiction is unreadable. But the traditional New Yorker tone, which is largely determined by the magazine's editorial sensibilities, has been irretrievably lost. The magazine that Brown now edits, while of occasional interest, is no longer the New Yorker. Its cachet has been diminished, its imprimatur subtly devalued...