I'm a subscriber and fairly regular reader. Yes, there are pages of theater listings and whatnot, which I promptly skip. The meat of the original content is politics, broadly defined, though. Or maybe that's just what I focus on, since that's what interests me?

Perhaps it's the Atlantic that I'm thinking of that has gone virtually all politics in recent years after having been more of a literary mag?

The problem is that there’s already a New Yorker of politics: the New Yorker. Aside from an annual literary issue, it’s been a political mag for some time.

James, when was the last time you actually read the New Yorker?

They have fiction in EVERY ISSUE. They have weekly music, theatre, film, book reviews. The bulk of pages are taken up by listings for Theatre, cinema, music, etc... events going on in NY. Sure, they have political reportage, but its more of an intellectual general interest magazine--a la Harper's--than simply a political rag. The political coverage is secondary, at best, in the New Yorker.

I've been a subscriber for nearly two decades and its basically been the same type of magazine now as it was during the 1980s.

How TNR's changes will effect subscribers is still unknown. Will rates change? Neither the NY Times article or TNR's website provides any info. My subscription is coming up for renewal soon. I guess it won't be long before I find out....