In fact, in the issues I looked at, the fiction by adults was less engaging and much more didactic than that by young people. Adults seem to care only about gender issues, for the wider political questions raised by some of the articles are not touched. Although it carries no outside advertising, New Moon is a mini-industry. The intended audience, which includes educators, has money to spend. A sibling newsletter, New Moon Network , speaks to adults about articles in NM and to issues on parents and educators minds.
Plans are under way for a series of four books.
Reading New Moon is like reading a junior Ms. without the sex and violence. It s won a lot of awards from, among others, the Parents Choice Foundation , the National Women s History Project , the NOW Foundation , and the Educational Press Association of America. It makes me remember the first discovery of other times and other places. I like to read it, skimming the didactic parts. Somewhere there are 23,000 people with subscriptions, which can t all be unsolicited gifts from parents and grandparents.