I be '' -lrb- l -rrb- iterary , brainy , and left-leaning , '' and I be sure I 'll really enjoy my issue once _ Harper 's _ stop send I the old issue from its warehouse . but it frustrate I no end to find yet another outdated issue in my mailbox and to have Harper 's ignore my request to update my subscription . I subscribe on November 22 . my first issue arrive , as Amazon tell I it would , a few week later . that first issue be the November 2005 issue -- the one I would buy at my local bookstore when it come out two month earlier . there be advertisement in that issue for Christmas television program , and the deadline for submit the puzzle be early December . so it be clearly a outdated issue . and I go to the subscriber service page on the magazine 's website to get the date of my subscription update to reflect my unwillingness to accept old issue as part of my subscription . -lrb- the date of expiration on my mailing label , by the way , be November 2006 -- so this be no simple mail room error . -rrb- no response from _ Harper 's _ . three day ago , I find the February 2006 issue wait for I . Great . the day after that , the January 2006 issue arrive . look , I like _ Harper 's _ . I really do . but I do not like receive leftovers , and I do not like be ignore when I try to get treat like I have half a brain .