American Scholar
from: Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Features critical commentary on diverse aspects of our culture, reappraisals of important literary and scientific figures, a continuing series of articles about great university teachers, and a selection of poetry, memoirs of other places and times, and book reviews.
Features critical commentary on diverse aspects of our culture, reappraisals of important literary and scientific figures, a continuing series of articles about great university teachers, and a selection of poetry, memoirs of other places and times, and book reviews.
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Customer Reviews
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- Will the real American Scholar please stand up
Sometime in 2004, I found my first issue of 'The American Scholar', and I was amazed at how fascinating such a wide ranging hodge-podge collection of essays (essays!) could be.I read it from cover to cover - alongside the reviews of literature and art and memoir, here were topics I generally had no interest in (Science, travel, medicine), written by experts for laymen, entertaining and engaging and informative.I waited for the next issue, glad of what I had discovered.
Except then ... Read More
Rating: - Unexceptional
I don't see any place for this magazine in a world where you can subscribe to The Wilson Quarterly and The Atlantic for incisive coverage of politics and current events (not to mention book reviews), or McSweeney's for short stories and poetry, or The New Yorker for a generous weekly dose of all of the above. The book reviews are often quite good, but the other content in The American Scholar has never stood out to me.
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- The End of a Good Thing
I had subscribed to the American Scholar for many years for the fine essays. I've let my subscription lapse now that the new editors have dumbed the magazine down. I can't imagine who they're trying to appeal to. The current issue's recourse to Kitty Kelly was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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- New editors, same great magazine
There was much discussion when the American Scholar changed editors in 2004.The first issue under the new leadership, however, continues the tradition of consistenly high quality essay writing.Contrary to what another reviewer suggests, they have not morphed this publication into a current affairs journal.While there are a couple of articles about Iraq, which might not have been there in the past, other articles include:why software doesn't make sense; why Jeremy Bernstein never finished his ... Read More
Rating: - BEWARE NEW EDITOR 2005
The first issue under the guidance of its new editorial staff showed what the PBK board must have had in mind.The magazine has adopted now a current-events bent, in place of the more insulated material that many found so appealing before.Photos are now part of the format- not good photos, or color photos, or anything like that, just waste-of-space photos.Oh yeah, in a nutshell, the pen is gone from the cover.The changes bring a once-great journal down to a level of mediocrity that results from ... Read More
- Will the real American Scholar please stand upSometime in 2004, I found my first issue of 'The American Scholar', and I was amazed at how fascinating such a wide ranging hodge-podge collection of essays (essays!) could be.I read it from cover to cover - alongside the reviews of literature and art and memoir, here were topics I generally had no interest in (Science, travel, medicine), written by experts for laymen, entertaining and engaging and informative.I waited for the next issue, glad of what I had discovered.
Except then ... Read More
- UnexceptionalI don't see any place for this magazine in a world where you can subscribe to The Wilson Quarterly and The Atlantic for incisive coverage of politics and current events (not to mention book reviews), or McSweeney's for short stories and poetry, or The New Yorker for a generous weekly dose of all of the above. The book reviews are often quite good, but the other content in The American Scholar has never stood out to me.
- The End of a Good ThingI had subscribed to the American Scholar for many years for the fine essays. I've let my subscription lapse now that the new editors have dumbed the magazine down. I can't imagine who they're trying to appeal to. The current issue's recourse to Kitty Kelly was the straw that broke the camel's back.
- New editors, same great magazineThere was much discussion when the American Scholar changed editors in 2004.The first issue under the new leadership, however, continues the tradition of consistenly high quality essay writing.Contrary to what another reviewer suggests, they have not morphed this publication into a current affairs journal.While there are a couple of articles about Iraq, which might not have been there in the past, other articles include:why software doesn't make sense; why Jeremy Bernstein never finished his ... Read More
- BEWARE NEW EDITOR 2005The first issue under the guidance of its new editorial staff showed what the PBK board must have had in mind.The magazine has adopted now a current-events bent, in place of the more insulated material that many found so appealing before.Photos are now part of the format- not good photos, or color photos, or anything like that, just waste-of-space photos.Oh yeah, in a nutshell, the pen is gone from the cover.The changes bring a once-great journal down to a level of mediocrity that results from ... Read More
