[borkrules]

I subscribed to The Atlantic for one reason: Michael Kelley was named editor. From the time he took over the reins there, the magazine quickly establised itself as THE general interest magazine in America. Consistently interesting, varied, opinionated, and non-partisan (it features articles and reviews by authors as diverse as Christopher Hitchens, PJ O'Rourke, Jonathon Rauch, etc.).

I just received this month's issue, which features a cover story on the perfidy of the House of Saud and predicts their eventual fall from power.

But the magazine isn't another TNR or NR. It's more, including one month a long piece on Maine lobster fishing that was simply fascinating.

The success of The Atlantic is a real tribute to Mr. Kelley's skill and talent. His death, if true, is a tremendous blow, not just to "conservatives" but to the reading public at large.

Someone is going to have HUGE shoes to try and fill.

[BlueCat]

I subscribed to The Atlantic for one reason: Michael Kelley was named editor.

Same here. I'm sick about this.

[segis]

I have to concur with what you wrote. I received the latest yesterday and I as I was reading Michael's column(from Kuwait), I thought that he was a very brave man to do this. The Atlantic Monthly is a very good magazine and I started subscribing a couple of months after he became editor.

RIP.

[happygrl]

Someone is going to have HUGE shoes to try and fill.

I so much agree. The Atlantic has been one magazine that I can depend on for a wide-rangin read, and it has only gotten better under Michael Kelley.

I am so sorry to hear this and feel deep sympathy for his wife and young children.

This is truly a loss to conservative journalism in America.