thebaldian: new yorker
First saw the light in 1925. Its aim was to offer the reader art and humour as well as political and cultural content.
It prints a million copies a week. While it mostly centres on culture in New York, even since 2003 it has had more subscribers in California than in New York.
It uses the Adobe Caslon typography and its use of the diaeresis in words with doubled vowels is one of its main characteristics.
The cover of the magazine features a different illustrator each week. If you take a look back through the different covers, you are shown the history of American illustration throughout the last century.
It’s one of the few publications that still employs a factchecker. This fact-checker guarantees that every single published fact is true.
The short-story became a popular form of literature in the middle of the 20th Century and since then the magazine has published stories by the likes of Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Susan
Sontag John Cheever, Sally Benson, Road Dahl and J.D. Salinger.
Many films have been made based on the stories published in The New Yorker: The Swimmer, Meet me in St Louis, Brokeback Mountain, Adaptation (the orchid t hief),...
Humour has always had its special place in the magazine, too. Collaborators include Woody Allen, Robert Crumb, Dorothy Parker, Steve Martin,...