The New Yorker
The New Yorker is a long running and widely respected magazine (debuted on
February 21,
1925), well known for its success at popularizing the
short story as a literary form in English in the mid-
20th century. The magazine also is known for its journalism --
John Hersey's
Hiroshima filled an entire issue -- and for its criticism and essays, particularly the short "Talk of the Town" pieces. Some readers look only for the
cartoons and short humorous pieces. Its long pieces are known for their rambling style that pays close attention to characters. Because of its quality and reputation the
New Yorker has a wide audience outside of the city of New York.
The editor of The New Yorker is David Remnick. Previous editors have included Tina Brown, William Shawn and Harold Ross.
Contributors have included:
- Charles Addams - cartoonist
- Woody Allen - humorist
- Roger Angell, fiction editor and baseball writer
- Peter Arno - cartoonist
- Hannah Arendt - journalist
- Robert Benchley, humorist and theater critic
- Elizabeth Bishop - poet, essayist
- Sidney Blumenthal - editorialist
- Andy Borowitz - humorist
- George Booth - cartoonist
- Raymond Carver - short story writer
- John Cheever - short story writer
- John Collier - short story writer
- Joan Didion - essayist
- Mark Danner - foreign affairs correspondent
- E.L. Doctorow - fiction writer
- James Fallows - journalist
- Jules Feiffer - cartoonist
- Wolcott Gibbs - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and short story writer
- Adam Gopnik - journalist
- Philip Gourevitch - journalist
- Alma Guillermoprieto - journalist
- Emily Hahn - journalist
- Seymour Hersh - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
- Pauline Kael - film critic
- Alex Kozinski - essayist
- A.J. Liebling - journalism critic
- Janet Malcolm - essayist
- Don Marquis - cartoonist
- Steve Martin - humorist
- Susan Orlean - journalist
- Dorothy Parker - short story writer, drama critic, poet, humorist
- S.J. Perelman - humorist
- J. D. Salinger - short story writer
- Anne Sexton - poet
- Art Spiegelman - illustrator
- Saul Steinberg - illustrator
- James Thurber - cartoonist and essayist
- John Updike - fiction, essayist
- E. B. White - essayist and editor
- Edmund Wilson - literary critic
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