The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine

by The New Yorker (Editor), David Remnick

EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS.

A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine.


What has the New Yorker said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing, Winston Churchill, Citizen Kane , the invention of television, the Cold War, baseball, the lunar landing, Willem de Kooning, Madonna, the internet, and 9/11?

Eighty years of The New Yorker offers a detailed, entertaining history of the life of the city, the nation, and the world since 1925.

Every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color. Flip through full spreads of the magazine to browse headlines, art work, ads, and cartoons, or zoom in on a single page, for closer viewing. Print any pages or covers you choose, or bookmark pages with your own notes.

Our powerful search environment allows you to home in on the pieces you want to see. Our entire history is catalogued by date, contributor, department, and subject.


4, 109 ISSUES. HALF A MILLION PAGES. YOURS TO SEARCH AND SAVOR.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Poetry, Art, History, Politics, Humor

124 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 2005

About the author

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published forty-seven times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.

Reviews

[Chad Schimke · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE COMPLETE NEW YORKER - Billed as ‘The Nation's Greatest Magazine’, I purchased the binder of eight DVD’s (with every page from 1925 to 2005) for pennies on the dollar. Don’t pay full price! Go to Amazon and buy a new or used set. What has ‘The Complete New Yorker’ got that no one else has got? More short fiction than you can (probably) read in a lifetime. As an English major, in my first year at state university, I learned the gold standard of the short story was contained therein. In the almost thirty years since, I’ve turned to the New Yorker, time and time again. Load a DVD on your laptop, to carry decades of issues with you, to travel wherever you go. A short story is the perfect choice to read in a single sitting, while commuting by train or by plane, for example. Treat yourself to the very best international writers literature has to offer. If you’re a hard-copy person, print single pages, I recommend you adjust your printer settings, to significantly darken the text. My single criticism of the DVD set is that the printed pages are faint and the text is not crisp. Regardless, there is no better way to browse literature in a more economical, compact or readily accessible format. This is truly the best of the best!

[Eric_W · Rating 5 out of 5]

How to mark this as anything but currently reading, since it will take decades to complete. I bought the mini-hd version and it's well worth the price. To be able to search on authors and topics of articles written decades ago is simply marvelous. Or, just to pick a year and wander through the magazine. I have subscribed to the New Yorker for years and still consider it one of the finest magazines (except for the short term of Tina Brown at the helm when it was almost ruined -- thank goodness for David Remnick.) An astonishing resource. Everything is there, including the cartoons.

[Trisha Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Books is so totally awesome! I dreamed of owning this book but it was so expensive I did't think I would ever be able to afford it. But I have this book now and I am in 7th heaven.

about the book? it's every issue with every article from 1925-2005 on cd-rom. thats 80 years. there is also a bonus book included that has selected best articles in it. I like the one about Hitler before he was known as a world tyrant.

I have marked it as read, but I could read this the rest of my life may never get completely through it all. what I like best about this book is that it gives you a great look into what was going on during WWII and the Vietnam conflict and the 80's. Hopefully one day soon they'll come out with a second book.

[Chris Wharton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A marvelous 2005 compendium of fiction, nonfiction, poems, cartoons, and New Yorker covers from 1925 to 2005 put out by the magazine in recognition of its 80th anniversary. It was put out as an 8-CD set with a book of sample entries attached. Except for poems, each entry is a reproduction of its first page in the New Yorker issue it appeared in, so the reader does not read the whole piece. The entries include heavyweight US and international fiction and nonfiction from writers and thinkers of the 20th century and five years of the next (García Márquez, Nabokov, Updike, Roth, Arendt, Baldwin, Capote, Bellow, Hersey, Rachel Carson, Seymour Hersh, Haruki Murakami, et al); poets (including Auden, Borges, Plath, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück); and New Yorker writers, most of whose work I had read very little, if at all, such as Dorothy Parker, Roger Angell, Ogden Nash, Lillian Ross, Edmund Wilson, Mavis Gallant, Brendan Gill, Janet Malcolm, William Maxwell, John McCarten, John O’Hara, Richard Rovere, Jonathan Schell, Kenneth Tynan, and Rebecca West.

[Joje · Rating 5 out of 5]

No comment needed. This magazine has been a mainstay for decades, and I sometimes seek something out on this collection, when I have a question and want a trusted answer--or rather exploration. I was looking for a way to pay tribute to one of my main reading sources, and here it is. I even actually own this, which allowed me to toss several boxes of articles I'd even saved, whether cut and stapled or not.

[Michael Klein · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates (1984). This excellent and creepy story went on to become a full length novel. Oates gives us a wonderful account from the mind of a serial killer - based loosely on J. Dahmer. The story is so masterfully written as she plays with tense and POV. Fantastic - but pretty graphic.

"Yogurt Days" by Jamie Quatro - Loved the subtle twists and complex emotions of a child looking back. Fantastic.

"The True Margaret" by Karan Mahajan

[Nate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the closest I could find to the New Yorker magazine, which is one of the few that we subscribe to. Since they got a new fiction editor a little while back, the fiction can be uneven, but I still try to read every single issue cover to cover, which is equivalent to a CD that is good enough to listen all the way through without skipping--a rare accomplishment.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, so I haven't actually read this anthology... but I LOOOOOOOVE the New Yorker magazine! It has made me much smarter than I ever expected to be, and I learn things every time I read it. Its articles open doors to worlds I never knew existed, and the writers whose works fill its pages are some of the best in the world. I aspire to be as skilled a writer as one of them someday.

[Sara Kearns · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this as a gift right when it came out in late 2005 and of course still have so much to read -- and re-read. Wow, wow, wow, could you possibly get more talent and virtuosity in one collection? Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Mailer, Updike, Anne Sexton, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Hendrick Hertzberg, Junot Diaz, and on and on and on...

[Happyreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

This really belongs in Read, Currently Reading, and To Read. I love having this constantly accessible. So many great and random series -- from Hiroshima in 1946 to a series on different foods, like a very lengthy article on potatoes in the 1970s. A must to own.

[Majikwah]

A stunning collection of fiction, non fiction, new journalism - eighty plus years of literary culture. And the cartoons are pretty fun too. I will post the short stories in the collection that I have enjoyed.

[Cooki Inglove]

The New Yorker will improve ones vacabulary and always make a person smarter, more aware about current events. They have many talented writers, good art, photography. David Reminck has taken the mag to a A+.

[Paulg · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's difficult to begin. But once you do, it provides endless reading material. I've found some index errors and such, and it helps to copy the entire thing to one's hard drive for ease of use and speed of access (this will require some database edits). Exceptional content obviously.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Indispensable. The best way to spend a night of insomnia, a rainy day, really any time you have a big chunk of time to get sucked into browsing one of the truly great collections of writing.

[Emily]

hey look, i CAN put the new yorker on my good reads. i want to read this. or own it. hint hint for all my really rich friends to buy this for me.

[Jaimee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really great set and so easy to use. I love it.

[Stacydances · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not actually reading all 80 years. Really, I just read the ones that come to me in the mail. It is more than I can keep up with at this time.

[Alexis]

The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs) (2005)

[Maggie Tiojakin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a gift from a wonderful friend: who always seems to know what to give me even when I didn't ask for it -- and especially when I did. Absolute treasure! Thank you!

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unbeleiavable--jus tnot searchable tho'

[Dyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who could not love having the complete magazines from the last 80 years of the New Yorker? For all of 4.00?

[R.J. Gilmour · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had a chance to read this while at Jeet & Robin's. A really good collection of the cartoons, divided by decade.

[Hadley Husisian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bought for a friend’s birthday, but enjoyed the quick perusal before I shipped it off. Some cartoonists clearly phoned in their interviews more than others.