Saturday, November 22, 2008

The New Yorker Archive

The complete archive of The New Yorker, dating back to 1925, is now available in their website - http://www.newyorker.com/archive ... a tremendous resource for long time New Yorker readers. In the past the entire archive was available through DVDs and/or a special external hard drive.

The search functionality seem to be less than great though. One of the first searches I did was for "Ved Metha", a blind Indian writer who had a series of Personal History articles throughout the 1980s. The search turned up nothing. However, searching on "blind indian" brought up links to abstracts of the articles.

Clicking on a link takes you to an abstracts page ... from where you can click on a link that takes you to the actual scanned copy of the magazine ... advertisements and all. You need to log in first ... subscribers to the magazine have free access.

The below is a sample from the November 1, 1941 issue.

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