Which is the more pretentious magazine? The New Yorker or Harper's?

[Cant trust em]

I guess by asking this question, that makes me a little pretentious, but what the hey.

[XemaSab]

1. Harper's kicks ass...

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/01/0082319

The New Yorker would probably be a lot better if I was a New Yorker myself. Goings on about town? Who cares? :shrug:

[abq e streeter]

2. +1 Harper's is first-rate

[XemaSab]

3. This is the money shot right here:

Average percentage of Americans who approved of the job Bush was doing during his second term: 37

Percentage of Russians today who approve of the direction their country took under Stalin: 37

[REP]

4. What? No McSweeney's or Utne Reader?

[SoxFan]

5. Utne is indeed pretentious

It's the guy at the next table at the coffee shop who segues from his tales of raising free-range tofu to a visit to a Zen retreat center in Costa Rica.

[Lorien]

19. Hardly. It contains a wide range of articles. Saying that it's "pretentious" is kind of like

saying that liberalism itself or intellectual curiosity is "pretentious".

[sarge43]

6. Vanity Fair is a much better contender for the Pretentious Award n/t

[Captain Hilts]

12. "People Magazine for people with intellectual pretensions." nt

[mitchum]

15. "Vanity Fair exists so that Mick Jagger has something to read in the bathroom"

I wish I were the wag who came up with that one

[goldcanyonaz]

7. Town and Country in my opinion.

[Lorien]

18. Yep. Love the New Yorker and Harper's.

[JTG of the PRB]

8. Any magazine that sports illustrated laughing squares is too pretentious for me.

[LearnedHand]

9. I was just gonna say that I'm pretentious enough to be able

to offer an opinion. :eyes: I HEART Harper's, though. The New Yorker is just so frickin' full of ... oh, I dunno, New York in-jokes or something.

[Silver Swan]

10. I picked Harper's

Because while I subscribed to Harper's thirty five years ago, or more, they have not sought me out since then--(Do they even offer subscriptions anymore?)

But I have subscribed to New Yorker for the last twenty years.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Yes. And I'm willing to admit I often read only the cartoons in the New Yorker. nt

[Cant trust em]

16. 87% off the cover price! nt

[graywarrior]

11. The New Yorker is a boring piece of crap

I hate their cartoons

[nolabear]

14. I love The New Yorker. They are who they are.

They're New York. But in addition they're smart and believe I'm smart and will appreciate good writing and hysterically funny cartoons. And they publish poetry in a general publication, which is damn near unheard of in this country.

Don't generally read Harper's, not because I don't like it but I just run out of time.

[Captain Hilts]

17. The New Yorker has more pictures and more humor. So, the answer is, 'Harpers'. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

20. I'm not sure I've ever read Harper's...

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...and I'm not sure that I've ever READ The New Yorker, but I used to
collect cartoons... and it was one of my richest sources.
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