Indispensable magazine with demanding readers
I think the app is generally very good since I read it on my iPad. I find it rather funny the number of negative reviews views that are that a literary magazine doesn’t have the resources to constantly update their app, but they have updated it slowly and it’s better than ever
My favorite magazine.
I’ve read the New York Review since its first issue during the 1962 newspaper strike. I loved it at first sight and I still do. It’s a bright spot in the glut of what passes for journalism.
Must have it.
I must have this magazine for useful rational information, viewpoints, and entertainment.
Please keep AI away from the content.
App works!
Please keep AI away from the content.
App works!
What’s with the font sizes?
Font sizes are either unacceptably small or ridiculously oversized, starting at 2 (why?), then roughly 6, only to leap to about 16 before increasing all the way up to 48 (allowing for no more than ten characters per line on an iPhone).
Where are 8, 10, or 12, font sizes most readers would find easiest to read?
The LONDON Review uses the same Pugpig Bolt software and gets everything right.
Where are 8, 10, or 12, font sizes most readers would find easiest to read?
The LONDON Review uses the same Pugpig Bolt software and gets everything right.
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The best essays
I love the NYR especially for its essays, which are thorough and illuminating but more manageable in a sitting than the New Yorker.
Unlike the New Yorker, which I also subscribe to and ad,ore enormously, the monthly NYR does not overwhelm or leave me feeling guilty for not keeping up! Fintan O’Toole and Zadie Smith are favourite contributors. I appreciate an international perspective on international affairs while the paper’s heart still resides in NY. I love the design and feel of the physical object but I also enjoy the app on my iPad and reading the online pieces as soon as they come out. It’s a joy to receive the issues in my mailbox, on the other side of the world in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
Unlike the New Yorker, which I also subscribe to and ad,ore enormously, the monthly NYR does not overwhelm or leave me feeling guilty for not keeping up! Fintan O’Toole and Zadie Smith are favourite contributors. I appreciate an international perspective on international affairs while the paper’s heart still resides in NY. I love the design and feel of the physical object but I also enjoy the app on my iPad and reading the online pieces as soon as they come out. It’s a joy to receive the issues in my mailbox, on the other side of the world in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
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Life changing
Life changing
Always
Always well written. Always informative. Always thought provoking, even in disagreement. Always worth while.
Still delivering unique content of the highest quality
I’ve been a subscriber off and on for years. Over time I’ve subscribed to many other publications, Substacks, and media aggregators (and still do). In a time where so much content is available, the review continues to feature ideas and insights that you cannot find elsewhere, writing of the highest quality, and an excellent breadth of coverage. Well worth the time and cost.
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Does not work
NYRB claims it is not a product they designed.
Great journal. Okay app.
The NYRB website is so well done that this app is a bit of a disappointment. The functionality is fine, but the font size is very off - it’s either tiny or huge, making it difficult to have a good reading experience. It would be nice to have more “medium” range sizes.
Peerless Writing
Among the finest criticism, reporting, and prose in the world.
Fintan is Fantastic
Deep insights and great writing, our so called leaders: memes, schemes and games exposed for their: poverty of intellect, their imaginative desperation and lack of ideas to tackle the great challenges of our time. Instead they offer a fossil fuel fascist 1930s like Abyss. Fintan takes Trumps megaphone off him.
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Novas Leituras
Ótima publicação para se tomar contato com novos livros e alguns não tão novos assim. As ideias que circulam por aqui são instigantes.
Logs me out
This app logs me out mid-article if I lose service making it borderline impossible to use during my commute. Disappointed as a subscriber.
One of the last places for great writing
NYR has the best contemporary writing - essays on books, painting, music or philosophy. The app just brings it together in an easy to read format and does an excellent job
Surprisingly Perfect
This app makes reading the paper so easy. Everything is organized clearly, easy to find and if you don’t finish a particular article the app saves your places so you can go back next time and pick up right where you left off. Never had a single problem.
The English Language's Premier Intellectual Journal
Required Reading For Inquisitive Minds
NYBR
Excellent worth the money worth the time thank you
Nearly Useless for retrieving older articles
The search function is almost completely useless; you can enter the precise title of an older article and the search menu still won’t find it. Furthermore, subscriptions purchased through the app do not grant access to the website for some unknown reason.
NYRB has some excellent articles, but this app is so bad and their policy decisions are so nonsensical that I will never support them again.
NYRB has some excellent articles, but this app is so bad and their policy decisions are so nonsensical that I will never support them again.
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Great publication, unusable app
It's almost as if the app developers do not read and still have perfect eyesight: (1) The font-size settings are unusable. (2) The PDFs are good, but the bookmark function doesn't work in them. I could still live with that if I could move the PDF to a better reader, but the files are locked inside the app. (3) The PDF tables of contents entries do not link to the pages on which the articles are, and I don't see a way to jump to a specific page number. (4) Who develops an app with a name that gets truncated on the screen? Do the deciders actually use the app?
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