Editor | Jake Silverstein [1] |
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Categories | Newspaper supplement |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 1,623,697 per week [2] (as part of Sunday paper) |
Publisher | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. |
First issue | September 6, 1896 |
Company | The New York Times |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Website | nytimes.com/magazine |
ISSN | 0028-7822 |
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times . It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazine is noted for its photography, especially relating to fashion and style.
Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper. [3] In the early decades, it was a section of the broadsheet paper and not an insert as it is today. The creation of a "serious" Sunday magazine was part of a massive overhaul of the newspaper instigated that year by its new owner, Adolph Ochs, who also banned fiction, comic strips, and gossip columns from the paper, and is generally credited with saving The New York Times from financial ruin. [4]
In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success. [5]
In its early years, The New York Times Magazine began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, from W. E. B. Du Bois and Albert Einstein to numerous sitting and future U.S. Presidents. [5] Editor Lester Markel, an "intense and autocratic" journalist who oversaw the Sunday Times from the 1920s through the 1950s, encouraged the idea of the magazine as a forum for ideas. [5] During his tenure, writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams contributed pieces to the magazine. When, in 1970, The New York Times introduced its first op-ed page, the magazine shifted away from publishing as many editorial pieces. [5]
In 1979, the magazine began publishing Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Safire's "On Language", a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and etymology. Safire's column steadily gained popularity and by 1990 was generating "more mail than anything else" in the magazine. [6] In 1999, the magazine debuted "The Ethicist", an advice column written by humorist Randy Cohen that quickly became a highly contentious part of the magazine.
In 2004, The New York Times Magazine began publishing an entire supplement devoted to style. Titled T , the supplement is edited by Deborah Needleman and appears 14 times a year. In 2009, it launched a Qatari Edition as a standalone magazine.
In 2006, the magazine introduced two other supplements: PLAY, a sports magazine published every other month, and KEY, a real estate magazine published twice a year. [7]
In September 2010, as part of a greater effort to reinvigorate the magazine, Times editor Bill Keller hired former staff member and then-editor of Bloomberg Businessweek , Hugo Lindgren, as the editor of The New York Times Magazine. [8]
As part of a series of new staff hires upon assuming his new role, Lindgren first hired then–executive editor of O, The Oprah Magazine Lauren Kern to be his deputy editor [9] and then hired then-editor of TNR.com, The New Republic magazine's website, Greg Veis, to edit the "front of the book" section of the magazine. [10] In December 2010, Lindgren hired Joel Lovell, formerly story editor at GQ magazine, as deputy editor. [11]
In 2011, Kaminer replaced Cohen as the author of the column, and in 2012 Chuck Klosterman replaced Kaminer. Klosterman left in early 2015 to be replaced by a trio of authors, Kenji Yoshino, Amy Bloom, and Jack Shafer, who used a conversational format; Shafer was replaced three months later by Kwame Anthony Appiah, who assumed sole authorship of the column in September 2015. "Consumed", Rob Walker's regular column on consumer culture, debuted in 2004. The Sunday Magazine also features a puzzle page, edited by Will Shortz, that features a crossword puzzle with a larger grid than those featured in the Times during the week, along with other types of puzzles on a rotating basis (including diagramless crossword puzzles and anacrostics).
In January 2012, humorist John Hodgman, who hosts his comedy court show podcast Judge John Hodgman , began writing a regular column "Judge John Hodgman Rules" (formerly "Ask Judge John Hodgman") for "The One-Page Magazine". [12]
In 2014, Jake Silverstein, who had been editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly , replaced Lindgren as editor of the Sunday magazine. [13]
U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey selects and introduces poems weekly, including from poets Tomas Tranströmer, Carlos Pintado, and Gregory Pardlo.
The magazine features the Sunday version of the crossword puzzle along with other puzzles. The puzzles have been very popular features since their introduction. The Sunday crossword puzzle has more clues and squares and is generally more challenging than its counterparts featured on the other days of the week. Usually, a second puzzle is included with the crossword puzzle. The variety of the second puzzle varies each week. These have included acrostic puzzles, diagramless crossword puzzles, and other puzzles varying from the traditional crossword puzzle.
The puzzles are edited by Will Shortz, the host of the on-air puzzle segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday , introduced as "the puzzlemaster".
In the September 18, 2005, issue of the magazine, an editors' note announced the addition of The Funny Pages, a literary section of the magazine intended to "engage our readers in some ways we haven't yet tried—and to acknowledge that it takes many different types of writing to tell the story of our time". [14] Although The Funny Pages is no longer published in the magazine, it was made up of three parts: the Strip (a multipart graphic novel that spanned weeks), the Sunday Serial (a genre fiction serial novel that also spanned weeks), and True-Life Tales (a humorous personal essay, by a different author each week). On July 8, 2007, the magazine stopped printing True-Life Tales.
The section has been criticized for being unfunny, sometimes nonsensical, and excessively highbrow; in a 2006 poll conducted by Gawker.com asking, "Do you now find—or have you ever found—The Funny Pages funny?", 92% of 1824 voters answered "No". [15]
Title | Artist | Start Date | End Date | # of Chapters |
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Building Stories | Chris Ware | September 18, 2005 | April 16, 2006 | 30 |
La Maggie La Loca | Jaime Hernandez | April 23, 2006 | September 3, 2006 | 20 |
George Sprott (1894-1975) [16] | Seth | September 17, 2006 | March 25, 2007 | 25 |
Watergate Sue [17] | Megan Kelso | April 1, 2007 | September 9, 2007 | 24 |
Mister Wonderful [18] | Daniel Clowes | September 16, 2007 | February 10, 2008 | 20 |
Low Moon [19] | Jason | February 17, 2008 | June 22, 2008 | 17 |
The Murder of the Terminal Patient [20] | Rutu Modan | June 29, 2008 | November 2, 2008 | 17 |
Prime Baby [21] | Gene Yang | November 9, 2008 | April 5, 2009 | 18 |
Title | Author | Start Date | End Date | # of Chapters |
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Comfort to the Enemy | Elmore Leonard | September 18, 2005 | December 18, 2005 | 14 |
At Risk | Patricia Cornwell | January 8, 2006 | April 16, 2006 | 15 |
Limitations | Scott Turow | April 23, 2006 | August 6, 2006 | 16 |
The Overlook | Michael Connelly | September 17, 2006 | January 21, 2007 | 16 |
Gentlemen of the Road | Michael Chabon | January 28, 2007 | May 6, 2007 | 15 |
Doors Open | Ian Rankin | May 13, 2007 | August 19, 2007 | 15 |
The Dead and the Naked | Cathleen Schine | September 9, 2007 | January 6, 2008 | 16 |
The Lemur | John Banville (as Benjamin Black) | January 13, 2008 | April 27, 2008 | 15 |
Mrs. Corbett's Request | Colin Harrison | May 4, 2008 | August 17, 2008 | 15 |
The Girl in the Green Raincoat [22] | Laura Lippman | September 7, 2008 | 1 (to date) |
Of the serial novels, At Risk, Limitations, The Overlook, Gentlemen of the Road, and The Lemur have since been published in book form with added material.
A crossword is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to separate entries. The first white square in each entry is typically numbered to correspond to its clue.
William F. Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of "enigmatology". After starting his career at Penny Press and Games magazine, he was hired by The New York Times in 1993. Shortz's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is the country's oldest and largest crossword tournament.
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Jeremiah (Jerry) Farrell was an American professor emeritus of mathematics at Butler University in Indiana. He was well known for having constructed Will Shortz's favorite puzzle, the famous 1996 "Election Day" crossword in The New York Times. He also wrote puzzles for many other books and newspapers, such as Scott Kim's puzzle column for Discover magazine.
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books, including the first-ever book of any kind, published by Simon & Schuster.
Merl Harry Reagle was an American crossword constructor. For 30 years, he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the San Francisco Chronicle, which he syndicated to more than 50 Sunday newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Seattle Times, The Plain Dealer, the Hartford Courant, the New York Observer, and the Arizona Daily Star. Reagle also produced a bimonthly crossword puzzle for AARP The Magazine magazine, a monthly crossword puzzle for the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and puzzles for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
The New York Times Crosswords is a video game released on May 22, 2007, for the Nintendo DS.
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Derrick Corson Niederman is an author, mathematician, game designer, and national squash champion. His most recent game, 36 Cube, has been described by Reuters as "a wolf in sheep's clothing" because its simple design belies the sophisticated mathematical intuition required for the solution. He received a B.A. in mathematics from Yale and a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. Dr. Niederman is a math professor at the College of Charleston.
Brendan Emmett Quigley is an American crossword constructor. He has been described as a "crossword wunderkind". His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and The Onion. He appeared in the documentary Wordplay and the book Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession.
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