The New Yorker

The New Yorker is a American Magazine which publishes reports, criticism, tests, cartoons, poetry and fictions. Previously Weekly, it from now on is published forty times per annum with six additional editions (in general thicker), covering two weeks.

Even if its criticisms and its diary concentrate on the cultural life of the town of New York, The New Yorker has many people apart from the city thanks to its quality of writing and its journalists. The character cosmopolitain and urban of the magazine off summarizes in the heading Talk the Town -- What is said downtown -- who proposes briefs and sharp comments on the life and the New Yorkean culture, the popular culture, and the eccentric Americana, even if this heading turned during last the years more and more to the political comment. Its cartoons, famous caricatures and its Nouvelle S allowed these kinds a better literary consideration with the the United States.

Within the profession, the teams of The New Yorker in charge of the correction and checking of the facts are famous for their rigor. Lastly, The New Yorker is famous for its stables of authors, journalists, collaborators and the criticisms, all among best in their categories.

History

The New Yorker started the February 17th 1925 like edition of February 21st. It was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, journalist with the NewYork Times. Ross wished to create a sophisticated humorous newspaper--in contrast with the banality of the other humorous publications such as Judge for which he had worked, or '' Life ''. Ross joined to the promoter Raoul H. Fleischman to found the company FR Publishing and to install the first offices of the jounal to the 25 West Forty-fifth Street with Manhattan. Ross continued to publish the magazine until its death in 1951. With the course its first years of existence, sometimes dubious, the magazine enorgueillit of its sophistication cosmopolitaine. The New Yorker published in its first édtion this famous declaration " It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. " -- “He declared that he was not published for the hurdy-gurdies women of Dubuque in the Iowa”

Although the magazine never lost its direction of humor, The New Yorker was quickly established like a preeminent platform of journalism " sérieux" and of the fiction. Little time after the end of the Second world war, the Essai of John Hersey “Hiroshima” fills a whole number. During following decades, the newspaper published the Nouvelle S of many authors among the most respected XX_eme and XXI_e century century, among Ann Beattie, J.D. Salinger, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and John Updike. The publication of the Lottery of Shirley Jackson generated more than of mail after its publication that all the other news in the history of The New Yorker . During its first decades, the magazine published sometimes two, even three Nouvelle S each week, but the rate/rhythm remained stable these last years, namely a history by number. Though certain topics and are recurring than others in the fictions published by The New Yorker , the stories of the magazine are characterized less by their uniformity than by their diversity, of the accounts intimists of John Updike with the surrealism of Donald Barthelme and sections of life of New Yorkean neurotics with stories located in places and varied and translated times many languages.

The Leitartikeces (which generally constitute the largest part of the magazine) are known to cover an eclectic whole of topics. One finds among the recent subjects the eccentric evangelist Creflo Dollar, the various ways in which the human ones perceive the passage of the Temps and the syndrome of Münchausen.

William Shawn (1951-1987) succeeded Ross. Robert Gottlieb (1987-1992) and Tina Brown (1992-1998) continued after Shawn.

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