{{Short description|American weekly magazine}} {{Other uses|New Yorker (disambiguation)}} {{Distinguish|New York (magazine)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Use American English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The New Yorker | logo = frameless|class=skin-invert | image_file = Original New Yorker cover.png | image_alt = Cover of The New Yorker's first issue in 1925 with illustration depicting iconic character Eustace Tilley | image_caption = Cover of the first issue from February 21, 1925, featuring the figure of dandy Eustace Tilley, created by Rea Irvin{{efn|name=tilly_muslimban|group=notes|The caricature, or a variation of it, appeared on the cover of every anniversary issue until 2017, when, in protest of Executive Order 13769, Tilley was not depicted (although a variation appeared two issues later).<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The New Yorker February 13 & 20, 2017 Issue |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13 |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310133300/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13 |archive-date=March 10, 2018 |access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The New Yorker March 6, 2017 Issue |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06 |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310133236/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06 |archive-date=March 10, 2018 |access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref>}} | company = Advance Publications | publisher = Condé Nast | frequency = 47 issues/year | format = {{convert|7+7/8|x|10+3/4|in|mm|0}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The New Yorker media kit |url=http://www.condenast.com/brands/new-yorker/media-kit/print/ad-specifications |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021083432/http://www.condenast.com/brands/new-yorker/media-kit/print/ad-specifications |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |website=condenast.com}}</ref> | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | total_circulation = 1,319,919<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=6 October 2025 |title=Statement of Ownership |url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/2025-10-06/flipbook/60/ |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |page=61 |access-date=1 October 2025}}</ref> | circulation_year = Oct. 2025 | category = {{hlist | Politics | social issues | short fiction | humor | culture}} | editor = David Remnick | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1925|2|21}} | country = United States | based = New York City | language = English | website = {{Official URL}} | issn = 0028-792X | eissn= 2163-3827 | oclc = 320541675 }}
'''''The New Yorker''''' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards, such as its robust fact-checking operation, for which ''The New Yorker'' is widely recognized.<ref>{{cite book|author-last=Cain|author-first=Sarah|title=Writing for The New Yorker: Critical Essays on an American Periodical|editor-last=Green|editor-first=Fiona|publisher=Oxford University Press|chapter=2:‘We Stand Corrected’: New Yorker Fact-checking and the Business of American Accuracy |date=2015}}</ref>
Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the magazine adapted to the digital era, maintaining its traditional print operations while expanding its online presence, including making its archives available on the Internet and introducing a digital version of the magazine. David Remnick has been the editor of ''The New Yorker'' since 1998.
''The New Yorker'' is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, such as ''View of the World from 9th Avenue'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Temple |first=Emily |date=February 21, 2018 |title=20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the Last 93 Years |url=https://lithub.com/20-iconic-new-yorker-covers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223110900/https://lithub.com/20-iconic-new-yorker-covers/ |archive-date=February 23, 2018 |access-date=February 23, 2018 |publisher=Literary Hub}}</ref> its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Norris |first=Mary |author-link=Mary Norris (copy editor) |date=May 10, 2015 |title=How I proofread my way to Philip Roth's heart |language=en |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/10/between-you-and-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen-mary-norris-extract |url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221432/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/10/between-you-and-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen-mary-norris-extract |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |quote=It has been more than 20 years since I became a page OK'er—a position that exists only at the ''New Yorker'', where you query-proofread pieces and manage them, with the editor, the author, a fact-checker, and a second proofreader, until they go to press.}}</ref><ref name="TED Talk">{{Cite web |title=Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of the New Yorker's comma queen |date=April 15, 2016 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728025944/https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen |archive-date=July 28, 2018 |access-date=July 12, 2018 |publisher=TED |quote=Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team—every little movement gets picked over by the critics ... E. B. White once wrote of commas in The New Yorker: 'They fall with the precision of knives outlining a body.'}}</ref> its investigative journalism and reporting on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons reproduced throughout each issue. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, ''The New Yorker'', along with ''The Atlantic'' and ''Harper's Magazine'', ranked highest in college-educated readership among major American media outlets.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-09-27 |title=Section 4: Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2012/09/27/section-4-demographics-and-political-views-of-news-audiences/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511155320/https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2012/09/27/section-4-demographics-and-political-views-of-news-audiences/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes since 2014, the first year magazines became eligible for the prize.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2025-05-05 |title=The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-new-yorker-wins-three-2025-pulitzer-prizes |access-date=2025-10-21 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US }}</ref>
== Overview and history == [[File:TheNewYorker30May1925.jpg|thumb|right|Cover of the issue from May 30, 1925, illustrated by Ilonka Karasz, a regular cover artist for ''The New Yorker'']] ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross (1892–1951) and his wife Jane Grant (1892–1972), a ''New York Times'' reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications, such as ''Judge'', where he had worked, or the old ''Life''. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company)<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline "Timeline"], ''The New Yorker''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107183533/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline |date=November 7, 2013 }}.</ref> to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Dirk |date=August 5, 1999 |title=Dubuque Journal; The Slight That Years, All 75, Can't Erase |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2D81730F936A3575BC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |access-date=February 13, 2017 |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604013841/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/05/us/dubuque-journal-the-slight-that-years-all-75-can-t-erase.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a preeminent forum for serious fiction, essays and journalism. Shortly after the end of World War II, John Hersey's essay ''Hiroshima'' filled an entire issue. The magazine has published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, Sally Benson, Maeve Brennan, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Mavis Gallant, Geoffrey Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Ruth McKenney, John McNulty, Joseph Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Philip Roth, George Saunders, J. D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and E. B. White. Publication of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" drew more mail than any other story in the magazine's history.<ref name="Lottery letters">{{Cite magazine |last=Franklin |first=Ruth |date=June 25, 2013 |title='The Lottery' Letters |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140626/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=June 11, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast}}</ref>
The nonfiction feature articles (usually the bulk of an issue) cover an eclectic array of topics. Subjects have included eccentric evangelist Creflo Dollar,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/11/pray-and-grow-rich |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Pray and Grow Rich |date=October 11, 2004 |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402103824/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/11/pray-and-grow-rich |url-status=live }}</ref> the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time |magazine=The New Yorker |title=The Secret Life of Time |date=December 11, 2016 |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118030725/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time |url-status=live }}</ref> and Münchausen syndrome by proxy.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/the-bad-mother |magazine=The New Yorker |title=The Bad Mother |date=August 2, 2004 |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-date=January 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127175719/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/the-bad-mother |url-status=live }}</ref> thumb|Cover of the October 29, 1979 issue, illustrated by Charles E. Martin, as a Halloween-themed special The magazine is known for its editorial traditions. Under the rubric ''Profiles'', it has published articles about prominent people such as Ernest Hemingway, Henry R. Luce, Marlon Brando, Hollywood restaurateur Michael Romanoff, magician Ricky Jay, and mathematicians David and Gregory Chudnovsky. Other enduring features have been "Goings on About Town", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and "The Talk of the Town", a feuilleton or miscellany of brief pieces—frequently humorous, whimsical, or eccentric vignettes of life in New York—in a breezily light style, although latterly the section often begins with a serious commentary. For many years, newspaper snippets containing amusing errors, unintended meanings or badly mixed metaphors ("Block That Metaphor") have been used as filler items, accompanied by a witty retort. There is no masthead listing the editors and staff. Despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers, and artwork. The magazine was acquired by Advance Publications, the media company owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr, in 1985,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Easley |first=Greg |date=October 1995 |title=The New Yorker: When a Magazine Wins Awards But Loses Money, the Only Success is the Editor's Private One |work=Spy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fM4yPDNHtHQC&q=1984+newhouse+the+new+yorker&pg=PA58 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604013925/https://books.google.com/books?id=fM4yPDNHtHQC&q=1984+newhouse+the+new+yorker&pg=PA58#v=snippet&q=1984%20newhouse%20the%20new%20yorker&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> for $200 million when it was earning less than $6 million a year.<ref name="mahon19890910">{{Cite news |last=Mahon |first=Gigi |date=September 10, 1989 |title=S.I. Newhouse and Conde Nast; Taking Off The White Gloves |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/magazine/si-newhouse-and-conde-nast-taking-off-the-white-gloves.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live |access-date=September 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026164340/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/magazine/si-newhouse-and-conde-nast-taking-off-the-white-gloves.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=October 26, 2017}}</ref>
Ross was succeeded as editor by William Shawn (1951–1987), followed by Robert Gottlieb (1987–1992) and Tina Brown (1992–1998). The current editor of ''The New Yorker'' is David Remnick, who succeeded Brown in July 1998.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Jennifer |date=July 13, 1998 |title=New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor |work=The Washington Times |agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |url-status=dead |access-date=December 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075840/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |archive-date=October 10, 2017|via=HighBeam Research}}</ref>
Among the important nonfiction authors who began writing for the magazine during Shawn's editorship were Dwight Macdonald, Kenneth Tynan, and Hannah Arendt, whose ''Eichmann in Jerusalem'' reportage appeared in the magazine,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Arendt |first=Hannah |date=1963-02-08 |title=Eichmann in Jerusalem |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=September 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921143945/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i |url-status=live }}</ref> before it was published as a book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt – Reading Guide: 9780143039884 |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320983/eichmann-in-jerusalem-by-hannah-arendt/9780143039884 |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US |archive-date=December 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222033817/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320983/eichmann-in-jerusalem-by-hannah-arendt/9780143039884/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Brown's tenure attracted more controversy than Gottlieb's or even Shawn's, due to her high profile (Shawn, by contrast, had been an extremely shy, introverted figure), and to the changes she made to a magazine with a similar look for the previous half-century. She introduced color to the editorial pages (several years before ''The New York Times'') and included photography, with less type on each page and a generally more modern layout. More substantively, she increased the coverage of current events and topics such as celebrities and business tycoons, and placed short pieces throughout "Goings on About Town", including a racy column about nightlife in Manhattan.
Since the late 1990s, ''The New Yorker'' has used the Internet to publish current and archived material, and maintains a website with some content from the current issue (plus exclusive web-only content). Subscribers have access to the full current issue online and a complete archive of back issues viewable as they were originally printed. In addition, ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s cartoons are available for purchase online. In 2014, ''The New Yorker'' opened up online access to its archive, expanded its plans to run an ambitious website, and launched a paywalled subscription model. Web editor Nicholas Thompson said, "What we're trying to do is to make a website that is to the Internet what the magazine is to all other magazines".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/07/a-relaunch-for-the-new-yorker-with-high-stakes-002553/ |work=Politico |title=A relaunch for the New Yorker, with high stakes |date=July 21, 2014 |access-date=January 1, 2024 |archive-date=January 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101202210/https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/07/a-relaunch-for-the-new-yorker-with-high-stakes-002553/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The magazine's complete archive was fully digitized in 2025, as part of its centenary publishing efforts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Entire ''New Yorker'' Archive is Now Fully Digitized |last=Henriquez |first=Nicholas |date=December 18, 2025 |access-date=February 2, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized}}</ref>
The magazine's editorial staff unionized in 2018 and The New Yorker Union signed its first collective bargaining agreement in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=2021-06-16 |title=New Yorker Union Reaches Deal With Condé Nast After Threatening to Strike |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/business/media/conde-nast-new-yorker-union-deal.html |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/business/media/conde-nast-new-yorker-union-deal.html |archive-date=2021-12-28 |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
=== Influence and significance === ''The New Yorker'' influenced a number of similar magazines, including ''The Brooklynite'' (1926 to 1930), ''The Chicagoan'' (1926 to 1935), and Paris's ''The Boulevardier'' (1927 to 1932).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lee |first=Judith Yaross |url=https://archive.org/details/definingnewyorke00leej |title=Defining New Yorker Humor |date=2000 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781578061983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/definingnewyorke00leej/page/12 12] |language=en |quote=brooklynite |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Overbey |first=Erin |author-link=Erin Overbey |date=January 31, 2013 |title=A New Yorker for Brooklynites |language=en |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-new-yorker-for-brooklynites |url-status=live |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914054336/http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-new-yorker-for-brooklynites |archive-date=September 14, 2015 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 6, 1948 |title=Erskine Gwynne, 49, Wrote Book on Paris |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/05/06/85217909.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510200252/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/05/06/85217909.html |archive-date=May 10, 2020 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |website=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref>
Kurt Vonnegut said that ''The New Yorker'' has been an effective instrument for getting a large audience to appreciate modern literature.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vonnegut |first=Kurt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLQeOR_m2YMC&pg=PA164 |title=Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=1988 |isbn=9780878053575 |editor-last=Allen |editor-first=William Rodney |location=Jackson |pages=163–164}}</ref> Tom Wolfe wrote of the magazine: "The ''New Yorker'' style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine's pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and appository modifier".<ref>Wolfe, Tom, "Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism", in ''Hooking Up''. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.</ref>
Joseph Rosenblum, reviewing Ben Yagoda's ''About Town'', a history of the magazine from 1925 to 1985, wrote, "''The New Yorker'' did create its own universe. As one longtime reader wrote to Yagoda, this was a place 'where Peter DeVries ...{{sic}} was forever lifting a glass of Piesporter, where Niccolò Tucci (in a plum velvet dinner jacket) flirted in Italian with Muriel Spark, where Nabokov sipped tawny port from a prismatic goblet (while a Red Admirable perched on his pinky), and where John Updike tripped over the master's Swiss shoes, excusing himself charmingly{{' "}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosenblum |first=Joseph |title=Magill's Literary Annual 2001: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 2000 |publisher=Salem Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-89356-275-0 |editor=Wilson, John D. |location=Pasadena, CA |page=5 |chapter=About Town |editor-last2=Steven G. Kellman}}</ref>
===United States presidential election endorsements=== On November 1, 2004, the magazine endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, choosing Democratic nominee John Kerry over incumbent Republican George W. Bush.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 25, 2004 |title=The Choice |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101024210/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! colspan="2" | Endorsement ! Result ! class="unsortable" colspan="6" | Other major candidate(s) ! class="unsortable" | {{Reference column heading}} |- | 2004 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Kerry, John" | John Kerry | {{Lost}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5"| George W. Bush |<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 1, 2004 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101024210/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |archive-date=November 1, 2020}}</ref> |- | 2008 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Obama, Barack" | Barack Obama | {{Won}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | John McCain ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 13, 2008 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/the-choice-the-editors |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125211515/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/the-choice-the-editors |archive-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> |- | 2012 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Obama, Barack" | Barack Obama | {{Won}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | Mitt Romney ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 29, 2012 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-choice-8 |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124033104/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-choice-8 |archive-date=January 24, 2021}}</ref> |- | 2016 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Clinton, Hillary" | Hillary Clinton | {{Lost}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | Donald Trump ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 31, 2016 |title=The New Yorker Endorses Hillary Clinton |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-new-yorker-endorses-hillary-clinton |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415052126/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-new-yorker-endorses-hillary-clinton |archive-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref> |- | 2020 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Biden, Joe" | Joe Biden | {{Won}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | Donald Trump | <ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 5, 2020 |title=The New Yorker Endorses a Biden Presidency |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-new-yorker-endorses-a-biden-presidency |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005211447/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-new-yorker-endorses-a-biden-presidency |archive-date=October 5, 2020}}</ref> |- | 2024 | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Harris, Kamala" | Kamala Harris | {{Lost}} | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | Donald Trump | <ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 7, 2024 |title=Harris for President |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/kamala-harris-for-president-endorsement |access-date=November 10, 2024}}</ref> |}
== Cartoons == ''The New Yorker'' has featured cartoons (usually gag cartoons) since it began publication in 1925. For years, its cartoon editor was Lee Lorenz, who first began cartooning in 1956 and became a ''New Yorker'' contract contributor in 1958.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Lee Lorenz |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lee-lorenz |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203023855/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lee-lorenz |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |access-date=July 31, 2015}}</ref> After serving as the magazine's art editor from 1973 to 1993 (when he was replaced by Françoise Mouly), he continued in the position of cartoon editor until 1998. His book ''The Art of the New Yorker: 1925–1995'' (Knopf, 1995) was the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of the magazine's graphics. In 1998, Robert Mankoff took over as cartoon editor and edited at least 14 collections of ''New Yorker'' cartoons. Mankoff also usually contributed a short article to each book, describing some aspect of the cartooning process or the methods used to select cartoons for the magazine. He left the magazine in 2017.<ref>Cavna, Michael. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/05/01/bob-mankoff-named-humor-editor-for-esquire-after-exiting-new-yorker-job/ "Bob Mankoff named humor editor for Esquire one day after exiting the New Yorker"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129080600/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/05/01/bob-mankoff-named-humor-editor-for-esquire-after-exiting-new-yorker-job/ |date=January 29, 2018 }} ''Washington Post'' (May 1, 2017).</ref>
''The New Yorker''{{'}}s stable of cartoonists has included many important talents in American humor, including Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Charles Barsotti, George Booth, Roz Chast, Tom Cheney, Sam Cobean, Leo Cullum, Richard Decker, Pia Guerra, J. B. Handelsman, Helen E. Hokinson, Pete Holmes, Ed Koren, Reginald Marsh, Mary Petty, George Price, Charles Saxon, Burr Shafer, Otto Soglow, William Steig, Saul Steinberg, James Stevenson, James Thurber, and Gahan Wilson.
Many early ''New Yorker'' cartoonists did not caption their cartoons. In his book ''The Years with Ross'', Thurber describes the newspaper's weekly art meeting, where cartoons submitted over the previous week were brought up from the mail room to be looked over by Ross, the editorial department, and a number of staff writers. Cartoons were often rejected or sent back to artists with requested amendments, while others were accepted and captions were written for them. Some artists hired their own writers; Hokinson hired James Reid Parker in 1931. Brendan Gill relates in his book ''Here at The New Yorker'' that at one point in the early 1940s, the quality of the artwork submitted to the magazine seemed to improve. It later was found out that the office boy (a teenaged Truman Capote) had been acting as a volunteer art editor, dropping pieces he did not like down the far end of his desk.<ref>Gill, Brendan. ''Here at The New Yorker''. New York: Berkley Medallion Press, 1976. p. 341.</ref>
Several of the magazine's cartoons have reached a higher plateau of fame. One 1928 cartoon drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White shows a mother telling her daughter, "It's broccoli, dear". The daughter responds, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it". The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular, and three years later, the Broadway musical ''Face the Music'' included Irving Berlin's song "I Say It's Spinach (And the Hell with It)".<ref>Gill (1976), p. 220.</ref> The catchphrase "back to the drawing board" originated with the 1941 Peter Arno cartoon showing an engineer walking away from a crashed plane, saying, "Well, back to the old drawing board".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Maslin – Finding Arno |url=http://michaelmaslin.com/index.php?page=finding-arno |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917221618/http://michaelmaslin.com/index.php?page=finding-arno |archive-date=September 17, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CBR.com – The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news |url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/arno11.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131235442/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/arno11.jpg |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=September 7, 2010}}</ref>
The most reprinted is Peter Steiner's 1993 drawing of two dogs at a computer, with one saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". According to Mankoff, Steiner and the magazine have split more than $100,000 in fees paid for the licensing and reprinting of this single cartoon, with more than half going to Steiner.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |date=December 14, 2000 |title=Cartoon Captures Spirit of the Internet |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/technology/14DOGG.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=f0518aafeccf36fd&ex=1183089600 |access-date=October 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416205920/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/technology/14DOGG.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=f0518aafeccf36fd&ex=1183089600 |archive-date=April 16, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Steiner's 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' |url=http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029045942/http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html |archive-date=October 29, 2005 |access-date=July 24, 2007}}</ref>
Over seven decades, many hardcover compilations of ''New Yorker'' cartoons have been published, and in 2004, Mankoff edited ''The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker'', a 656-page collection with 2,004 of the magazine's best cartoons published during 80 years, plus a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine.<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Mankoff |editor-first=Robert |editor-link=Robert Mankoff |year=2004 |title=The Complete Cartoons of ''The New Yorker'' |url=https://archive.org/details/completecartoons0000unse |url-access=registration |edition=First hardcover |location=New York |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publisher |isbn=9781579123222 |oclc=1547920310 |access-date=3 November 2025}}</ref> This features a search function allowing readers to search for cartoons by cartoonist's name or year of publication. The newer group of cartoonists in recent years includes Pat Byrnes, J. C. Duffy, Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Robert Leighton, Michael Maslin, Julia Suits, and P. C. Vey. Will McPhail cited his beginnings as "just ripping off ''Calvin and Hobbes'', Bill Watterson, and doing little dot eyes".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freedom and Space: In Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonist Will McPhail |url=https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/will-mcphail-in-a-graphic-novel-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207204215/https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/will-mcphail-in-a-graphic-novel-interview |archive-date=December 7, 2021 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Cleveland Review of Books |date=July 22, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> The notion that some ''New Yorker'' cartoons have punchlines so oblique as to be impenetrable became a subplot in the ''Seinfeld'' episode "The Cartoon",<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mankoff |first=Robert |date=2012-07-11 |title=I Liked the Kitty |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty |access-date=2023-07-15 |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=July 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715015749/https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as a playful jab in ''The Simpsons'' episode "The Sweetest Apu".{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}
In April 2005, the magazine began using the last page of each issue for "The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest". Captionless cartoons by ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s regular cartoonists are printed each week. Captions are submitted by readers, and three are chosen as finalists. Readers then vote on the winner. Anyone age 13 or older can enter or vote. At first, the winner received a print of the cartoon (with the winning caption) signed by the artist who drew the cartoon, but this practice ceased.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Caption Contest Rules |url=https://www.newyorker.com/about/caption-contest-rules |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712223454/https://www.newyorker.com/about/caption-contest-rules |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref> In 2017, after Bob Mankoff left the magazine, Emma Allen became its youngest and first female cartoon editor.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cavna |first=Michael |date=2021-10-06 |title=Emma Allen is redefining what a New Yorker cartoon can be |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/05/emma-allen-new-yorker-cartoon-editor/ |access-date=2023-11-04 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308062535/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/05/emma-allen-new-yorker-cartoon-editor/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Comics journalism === Since 1993, the magazine has published occasional stories of comics journalism (alternately called "sketchbook reports")<ref name=Conduit>McGee, Kathleen. [https://www.conduit.org/interview/5/spiegelman "Spiegelman Speaks: Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus for which he won a special Pulitzer in 1992. Kathleen McGee interviewed him when he visited Minneapolis in 1998"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108170634/https://www.conduit.org/interview/5/spiegelman |date=November 8, 2022 }}, ''Conduit'' (1998).</ref> by such cartoonists as Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Barry Blitt, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Jules Feiffer, Ben Katchor, Carol Lay, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, Mark Alan Stamaty, and Ronald Wimberly.<ref>Williams, Kristian. "The Case for Comics Journalism", ''Columbia Journalism Review'' Vol. 43, Iss. 6, (Mar/Apr 2005), pp. 51–55.</ref>
== Crosswords and puzzles == In April 2018, ''The New Yorker'' launched a crossword puzzle series with a weekday crossword published every Monday. Subsequently, it launched a second, weekend crossword that appears on Fridays and relaunched cryptic puzzles that were run in the magazine in the late 1990s. In June 2021, it began publishing new cryptics weekly.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Announcing an All-New Weekly Cryptic Crossword from The New Yorker |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/cryptic-crossword/announcing-an-all-new-weekly-cryptic-crossword-from-the-new-yorker |access-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928173002/https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/cryptic-crossword/announcing-an-all-new-weekly-cryptic-crossword-from-the-new-yorker |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2021, ''The New Yorker'' introduced Name Drop, a trivia game, which is posted online weekdays.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Introducing Name Drop: a Daily Trivia Game from The New Yorker |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/introducing-name-drop-a-daily-trivia-game-from-the-new-yorker |access-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909204500/https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/introducing-name-drop-a-daily-trivia-game-from-the-new-yorker |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2022, ''The New Yorker'' moved to publishing online crosswords every weekday, with decreasing difficulty Monday through Thursday and themed puzzles on Fridays.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=You Can Now Play The New Yorker Crossword Every Weekday |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword/you-can-now-play-the-new-yorker-crossword-every-weekday |access-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909210008/https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword/you-can-now-play-the-new-yorker-crossword-every-weekday |url-status=live }}</ref> The puzzles are written by a rotating stable of 13 constructors. They integrate cartoons into the solving experience. The Christmas 2019 issue featured a crossword puzzle by Patrick Berry that had cartoons as clues, with the answers being captions for the cartoons. In December 2019, Liz Maynes-Aminzade was named ''The New Yorker''{{'s}} first puzzles and games editor.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
== Eustace Tilley == {{Main|Eustace Tilley}}
[[File:Alfred D’Orsay.png|thumb|upright=0.7|right|Image of Alfred d'Orsay (1801–1852), published by James Fraser (1783–1856)]]
The magazine's first cover illustration, depicting a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor. It was based on an 1834 caricature of the Count d'Orsay that appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2010 |title=Eustace Tilley |url=http://hoc.uspoc.us/2010/eustace-tilley/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817123844/http://hoc.uspoc.us/2010/eustace-tilley/ |archive-date=August 17, 2011 |access-date=March 29, 2010}}</ref> The character on the original cover, now known as Eustace Tilley, was created for ''The New Yorker'' by Corey Ford. The hero of a series titled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped formal trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}}. He selected "Eustace" for euphony.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kunkel |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusindisguise00kunk |title=Genius in Disguise |date=June 1996 |publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers |isbn=9780786703234 |page=512 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
The character has become a kind of mascot for ''The New Yorker'', frequently appearing in its pages and on promotional materials. Traditionally, Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is used every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mouly |first=Françoise |date=February 16, 2015 |title=Cover Story: Nine for Ninety |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-nine-ninety |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804074621/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-nine-ninety |archive-date=August 4, 2015 |access-date=July 31, 2015}}</ref>
== Covers == The magazine is known for its illustrated and often topical covers. {{As of|2025}}, only two covers have featured photography.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cindy-sherman-new-yorker-centenary-cover-2681220|title = Cindy Sherman Slips Into Character for the New Yorker's Centenary Cover|last = Whiddington|first = Richard|date = August 26, 2025|accessdate = August 29, 2025|work = Artnet}}</ref>
=== "View of the World" cover === {{main|View of the World from 9th Avenue}}
Saul Steinberg created 85 covers and 642 internal drawings and illustrations for the magazine. His most famous work is probably the cover for issue March 29, 1976,<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Yorker March 29, 1976 by Saul Steinberg |url=https://condenaststore.com/featured/new-yorker-march-29-1976-saul-steinberg.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304212518/https://condenaststore.com/featured/new-yorker-march-29-1976-saul-steinberg.html |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |access-date=April 5, 2022 |website=Condé Nast}}</ref> featuring an illustration, most often called "View of the World from 9th Avenue", sometimes called "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World" or "A New Yorker's View of the World", which depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers.
The illustration is split in two, with the bottom half showing Manhattan's 9th Avenue, 10th Avenue, and the Hudson River, and the top half depicting the rest of the world. The rest of the US is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing "Jersey", the names of five cities (Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas; Kansas City; and Chicago) and three states (Texas, Utah, and Nebraska) scattered among a few rocks for the U.S. beyond New Jersey. The Pacific Ocean, perhaps half again as wide as the Hudson, separates the US from three flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia.
The illustration—depicting New Yorkers' self-image of their place in the world, or perhaps outsiders' view of New Yorkers' self-image—inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 film ''Moscow on the Hudson''; that movie poster led to a lawsuit, ''Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.'', 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the copyright that Steinberg held.
The cover was later satirized by Barry Blitt for the cover of ''The New Yorker'' on October 6, 2008, featuring Sarah Palin looking out of her window seeing only Alaska, with Russia in the far background.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 6, 2008 |title=New Yorker Cover – 10/6/2008 at The New Yorker Store |url=http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-October-6-2008-Prints_i8482999_.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118060355/http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/The-New-Yorker-Cover-October-6-2008-Prints_i8482999_.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=October 15, 2010 |publisher=Newyorkerstore.com}}</ref> The cover of the March 21, 2009, issue of ''The Economist'', titled "How China sees the World", is an homage to Steinberg, depicting the viewpoint from Beijing's Chang'an Avenue instead of Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 21, 2009 |title=Issue Cover for March 21, 2009 |newspaper=The Economist |url=http://www.economist.com/node/21521345 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225030405/http://www.economist.com/node/21521345 |archive-date=February 25, 2012}}</ref>
=== 9/11 === Hired by Tina Brown in 1992, Art Spiegelman worked for ''The New Yorker'' for ten years, but resigned a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly received wide acclaim for their cover for the issue from September 24, 2001; it was voted as being among the top ten magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors:
{{blockquote|''New Yorker'' Covers Editor Françoise Mouly repositioned Art Spiegelman's silhouettes, inspired by Ad Reinhardt's black-on-black paintings, so that the North Tower's antenna breaks the "W" of the magazine's logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared on 9/11. The silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four color printing inks. An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.}}
The cover appears to be totally black, but upon close examination it reveals the silhouettes of the World Trade Center towers in a darker shade of black. In some situations, the ghost images become visible only when the magazine is tilted toward a light source.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ASME's Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years – ASME |url=http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contests/asmes-top-40-magazine-covers-last-40-years |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104050040/http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contests/asmes-top-40-magazine-covers-last-40-years |archive-date=November 4, 2018 |access-date=December 23, 2015}}</ref> In September 2004, Spiegelman reprised the image on the cover of his book ''In the Shadow of No Towers''.
=== "New Yorkistan" === {{Main|New Yorkistan}}
In December 2001, the magazine printed a cover by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz showing a map of New York in which neighborhoods are labeled with humorous names reminiscent of Middle Eastern and Central Asian place names and referencing the neighborhood's real name or characteristics (e.g., "Fuhgeddabouditstan", "Botoxia"). The cover had cultural resonance in the wake of September 11, and became a popular print and poster.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 2002 |title=The New Yorker uncovers an unexpected profit center – Ancillary Profits – by licensing cover illustrations |work=Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83296829.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504224203/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83296829.html |archive-date=2016-05-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Daniel Grand |date=February 12, 2004 |title=A Print by Any Other Name... |work=OpinionJournal |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004685 |url-status=live |access-date=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930202457/http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004685 |archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref>
=== Controversial covers === ==== Crown Heights in 1993 ==== For the 1993 Valentine's Day issue, the cover by Spiegelman depicted a black woman and a Hasidic Jewish man kissing, referencing the Crown Heights riot of 1991.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=James |date=August 28, 2004 |title=Drawing pains |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/28/comics.politics |url-status=live |access-date=May 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828045435/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/28/comics.politics |archive-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="npr">{{Cite web |last=Chideya |first=Farai |date=July 15, 2008 |title=Cartoonist Speaks His Mind on Obama Cover: News & Views |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/07/cartoonist_speaks_mind_on_obam.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413132622/http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/07/cartoonist_speaks_mind_on_obam.html |archive-date=April 13, 2010 |access-date=October 15, 2010 |publisher=NPR}}</ref> The cover was criticized by black and Jewish observers.<ref name="shapiro">{{Cite book |last=Shapiro |first=Edward S. |title=Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot |publisher=UPNE |year=2006 |page=211}}</ref> Jack Salzman and Cornel West called reaction to the cover the magazine's "first national controversy".<ref name="salzman">{{Cite book |last1=Jack Salzman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2MJkRjpOHoC&q=Struggles+in+the+Promised+Land:+Towards+a+History+of+Black-Jewish+Relations+in+the+United+States |title=Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States |last2=Cornel West |publisher=Oxford University Press US |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-19-508828-1 |page=373 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604013817/https://books.google.com/books?id=C2MJkRjpOHoC&q=Struggles+in+the+Promised+Land:+Towards+a+History+of+Black-Jewish+Relations+in+the+United+States#v=snippet&q=Struggles%20in%20the%20Promised%20Land%3A%20Towards%20a%20History%20of%20Black-Jewish%20Relations%20in%20the%20United%20States&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
==== 2008 Obama cover satire and controversy ==== thumb|right|Barry Blitt's ''New Yorker'' cover from July 21, 2008 On July 21, 2008, "The Politics of Fear", a cartoon by Barry Blitt, was featured on the cover of ''The New Yorker'', depicting then presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in the turban and shalwar kameez typical of many Muslims, fist bumping with his wife, Michelle, portrayed with an Afro and wearing camouflage trousers with an assault rifle slung over her back. They are standing in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden hanging on the wall and an American flag burning in the fireplace.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kugler |first=Sara |agency=Associated Press |date=July 14, 2008 |title=New Yorker cover stirs controversy |publisher=Canoe.ca |url=http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/MediaNews/2008/07/14/6151776-ap.html |access-date=July 14, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=April 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> This parody was inspired by Fox News host E. D. Hill's paraphrase of an internet comment that asked whether a gesture the Obamas made was a "terrorist fist jab".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beam |first=Christopher |date=July 14, 2008 |title=The 'Terrorist Fist Jab' and Me |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2195347/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227041719/http://www.slate.com/id/2195347 |archive-date=December 27, 2009 |access-date=January 23, 2010 |website=Slate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fox News anchor calls the Obamas' fist pound 'a terrorist fist jab' |url=http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/fox-news-anchor-calls-the-obamas-fist-pound-a-terrorist-fist-jab/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610230043/http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/09/fox-news-anchor-calls-the-obamas-fist-pound-a-terrorist-fist-jab/ |archive-date=June 10, 2008 |access-date=June 10, 2008 |website=Think Progress}}</ref> Later, Hill's contract was not renewed.<ref>[https://huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/fox-news-changes-terroris_n_106306.html "Fox News Changes: 'Terrorist Fist Jab' Anchor E.D. Hill Loses Her Show, Laura Ingraham In At 5PM"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723141246/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/fox-news-changes-terroris_n_106306.html |date=July 23, 2018 }}, ''Huffington Post'', June 18, 2008.</ref>
Many ''New Yorker'' readers saw the image as a lampoon of "The Politics of Fear", its title. Some Obama supporters, as well as his presumptive Republican opponent, John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers. Editor David Remnick felt the image's obvious excesses rebuffed the concern it could be misunderstood.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 19, 2008 |title=Was it satire? |url=http://www.thespec.com/opinion/article/143986--was-it-satire |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031905/http://www.thespec.com/opinion/article/143986--was-it-satire |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 15, 2008 |title=Barack Obama New Yorker Cover Branded Tasteless |url=http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/world/266893/barack-obama-new-yorker-cover-branded-tasteless.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724122550/http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/world/266893/barack-obama-new-yorker-cover-branded-tasteless.html |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |website=Marie Claire}}</ref> "The intent of the cover", he said, "is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors and misconceptions about the Obamas that have been floating around in the blogosphere and are reflected in public opinion polls. What we set out to do was to throw all these images together, which are all over the top and to shine a kind of harsh light on them, to satirize them."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |author-link=Jake Tapper |date=July 14, 2008 |title=New Yorker Editor David Remnick Talks to ABC News About Cover Controversy |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-yorker-edit.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522022349/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-yorker-edit.html |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |website=ABC News}}</ref> Obama said, "Well, I know it was ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s attempt at satire... I don't think they were entirely successful". He pointed to his efforts to debunk the allegations the cover depicted, saying that the allegations were "actually an insult against Muslim-Americans".<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 16, 2008 |title=Democrats' bus heads South to sign up new voters |work=The Boston Globe |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/16/democrats_bus_heads_south_to_sign_up_new_voters/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113012428/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/16/democrats_bus_heads_south_to_sign_up_new_voters/ |archive-date=January 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=July 13, 2008 |title=Obama Camp Hammers New 'Ironic' New Yorker Cover Depicting Conspiracists' Nightmare of Real Obamas |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-ironic-new.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522022401/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-ironic-new.html |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |website=Political Punch |publisher=ABC News}}</ref> ''The Daily Show'' continued ''The New Yorker'' cover's argument about Obama stereotypes with a piece showcasing clips containing such stereotypes culled from legitimate news sources.<ref>[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/twlbqc/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-obama-cartoon "Obama Cartoon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202035441/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/twlbqc/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-obama-cartoon |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''The Daily Show'', July 15, 2008.</ref> On October 3, 2008, ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine published a parody of the cover, featuring Jon Stewart as Barack and Stephen Colbert as Michelle.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Wolk |first=Josh |date=September 30, 2008 |title=''Entertainment Weekly'' October 3, 2008, Issue #1014 cover |url=https://ew.com/ew/inside/issue/0,,ewTax:1014,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427075552/http://www.ew.com/ew/inside/issue/0%2C%2CewTax%3A1014%2C00.html |archive-date=April 27, 2009 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref>
''New Yorker'' covers are sometimes unrelated to the contents, or only tangentially related. The article about Obama in the issue with Blitt's cover did not discuss the attacks and rumors, but rather Obama's career. The magazine later endorsed Obama for president.
==== 2013 Bert and Ernie cover ==== On July 8, 2013, ''The New Yorker'' featured a cover image by artist Jack Hunter, titled "Moment of Joy", depicting ''Sesame Street'' characters Bert and Ernie; the issue in particular covered the Supreme Court decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and California Proposition 8.<ref name="New Yorker">{{Cite magazine |last1=Mouly |first1=Francoise |last2=Kaneko |first2=Mina |title=Cover Story: Bert and Ernie's 'Moment of Joy' |url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/06/new-yorker-cover-bert-ernie-gay-marriage.html |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625163138/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/06/new-yorker-cover-bert-ernie-gay-marriage.html |archive-date=June 25, 2014 |access-date=February 17, 2015 |quote='It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime,' said Jack Hunter, the artist behind next week's cover}}</ref> Bert and Ernie have long been rumored in urban legend to be romantic partners, but Sesame Workshop has denied this, saying they are merely "puppets" and have no sexual orientation.<ref name="snopes">{{Cite web |last=Mikkelson |first=Barbara and David P. |author-link=Snopes.com |date=August 6, 2007 |title=Open Sesame |url=http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/gaymuppet.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405142555/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/open-sesame/ |archive-date=April 5, 2022 |access-date=February 17, 2015 |website=Urban Legends Reference Pages |publisher=Barbara and David P. Mikkelson |quote=The Children's Television Workshop has steadfastly denied rumors about Bert and Ernie's sexual orientation...}}</ref> ''Slate'' criticized the cover, which shows Ernie leaning on Bert's shoulder as they watch a television with the Supreme Court justices on the screen, saying, "it's a terrible way to commemorate a major civil-rights victory for gay and lesbian couples". ''The Huffington Post'', meanwhile, said it was "one of [the magazine's] most awesome covers of all time".<ref name="ABC News">{{Cite web |author=Christina Ng |title=Bert and Ernie Cuddle Over Supreme Court Ruling |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/bert-and-ernie-cuddle-over-supreme-court-ruling/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701045715/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/bert-and-ernie-cuddle-over-supreme-court-ruling/ |archive-date=July 1, 2013 |access-date=June 28, 2013 |publisher=ABC News}}</ref>
==== 2023 "Race for Office" cover ==== The cover from October 2, 2023, titled "The Race for Office", depicts top politicians—Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden—running the titular race for office with walkers. Many had questioned the mental and physical states of these and other older politicians, particularly those who have run for reelection.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seddiq |first=Oma |title=The top US general 'was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline' after the 2020 election, book says |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/top-us-general-certain-trump-had-mental-decline-after-election-2021-9 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010184611/https://www.businessinsider.com/top-us-general-certain-trump-had-mental-decline-after-election-2021-9 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-08-30 |title=Mitch McConnell freezes for second time during press event |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66665682 |access-date=2023-10-09 |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010184611/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66665682 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mascaro |first=Lisa |date=2023-09-08 |title=Nancy Pelosi says she'll seek House reelection in 2024, dismissing talk of retirement at age 83 |url=https://apnews.com/article/pelosi-house-speaker-democrat-congress-san-francisco-a251e03986a589d5c0bd7f1122f291e4 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=AP News |language=en |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908165039/https://apnews.com/article/pelosi-house-speaker-democrat-congress-san-francisco-a251e03986a589d5c0bd7f1122f291e4 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Montanaro |first=Domenico |date=2023-05-23 |title=More than 6 in 10 say Biden's mental fitness to be president is a concern, poll finds |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/05/23/1177617666/more-than-6-in-10-say-bidens-mental-fitness-to-be-president-is-a-concern-poll-fi |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=NPR |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010184611/https://www.npr.org/2023/05/23/1177617666/more-than-6-in-10-say-bidens-mental-fitness-to-be-president-is-a-concern-poll-fi |url-status=live }}</ref> While many acknowledged the cover as satirizing this issue, others criticized the "ableism and ageism" of mocking older people and those who use walkers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moran |first=Lee |date=2023-09-26 |title=New Yorker Slammed For Cover Depicting Biden, Trump With Walkers |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-yorker-cover-trump-biden-walkers_n_65129ba6e4b00b70c63ad035 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=HuffPost |language=en |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009182420/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-yorker-cover-trump-biden-walkers_n_65129ba6e4b00b70c63ad035 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Daunt |first=Tina |date=2023-09-25 |title=New Yorker Cover Showing Top US Politicians Using Walkers Draws Cries of Ageism: 'Disgusting and Vulgar' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/new-yorker-magazine-cover-donald-trump-joe-biden-walkers/ |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010184611/https://www.thewrap.com/new-yorker-magazine-cover-donald-trump-joe-biden-walkers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The New Yorker'' said the cover "portrays the irony and absurdity of the advanced-age politicians currently vying for our top offices".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mouly |first=Françoise |date=2023-09-25 |title=Barry Blitt's 'The Race for Office' |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-10-02 |access-date=2023-10-09 |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010184612/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-10-02 |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Style == ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above "The Talk of the Town" section, is named Irvin, named after its creator, the designer-illustrator Rea Irvin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/allworth-press/ |website=Allworth Press |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908114825/http://www.allworth.com/book/?GCOI=58115100176530& |url-status=dead |archivedate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> The body text of all articles is set in Adobe Caslon.<ref name="caslonref">{{Cite magazine |last=Gopnik |first=Adam |date=February 9, 2009 |title=Postscript |magazine=The New Yorker |page=35}}</ref>
One uncommonly formal feature of the magazine's in-house style is the placement of diaeresis marks in words with repeating vowels—such as ''reëlected'', ''preëminent'', and ''coöperate''—in which the two vowel letters indicate separate vowel sounds.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Norris |first=Mary |date=April 26, 2012 |title=The Curse of the Diaeresis |url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis.html |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701065556/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis.html |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Andrew|last=Boynton|title=The New Yorker House Style Joins the Internet Age|url=https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/the-new-yorker-house-style-joins-the-internet-age|magazine=The New Yorker|date=March 10, 2025|access-date=March 15, 2025|quote=...[I]t should be noted that the diaeresis...has overwhelming support at the magazine, and will remain.}}</ref> The magazine also continues to use a few spellings that are otherwise little used in American English, such as ''fuelled'', ''focussed'', ''venders'', ''teen-ager'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stillman |first=Sarah |date=August 27, 2012 |title=The Throwaways |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312014547/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_stillman?currentPage=all |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref> ''traveller'', ''marvellous'', ''carrousel'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Norris |first=Mary |date=April 25, 2013 |title=The Double L |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-double-l |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309030118/http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-double-l |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> and ''cannister''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Norris |first=Mary |date=April 12, 2012 |title=In Defense of 'Nutty' Commas |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/in-defense-of-nutty-commas |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309023753/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/in-defense-of-nutty-commas |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref>
The magazine also spells out the names of numerical amounts, such as "two million three hundred thousand dollars" instead of "$2.3 million", even for very large figures.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Davidson |first=Amy |date=March 16, 2011 |title=Hillary Clinton Says 'No' |url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/03/hillary-clinton-says-no.html |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419025517/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/03/hillary-clinton-says-no.html |archive-date=April 19, 2014 |access-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref>
== Fact-checking == In 1927, ''The New Yorker'' ran an article about Edna St. Vincent Millay that contained multiple factual errors, and her mother threatened to sue the publication for libel.<ref name="CJR Facts">{{Cite news |last=Dickey |first=Colin |date=Fall 2019 |title=The Rise and Fall of Facts |language=en |work=Columbia Journalism Review |url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/rise-and-fall-of-fact-checking.php |url-status=dead |access-date=7 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207195717/https://www.cjr.org/special_report/rise-and-fall-of-fact-checking.php |archive-date=December 7, 2019}}</ref> Consequently, the magazine developed extensive fact-checking procedures, which became integral to its reputation as early as the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yagoda |first=Ben |url=https://archive.org/details/abouttown00beny/page/202 |title=About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-306-81023-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/abouttown00beny/page/202 202–3] |url-access=registration}}</ref> In 2019, the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' said that "no publication has been more consistently identified with its rigorous fact-checking".<ref name="CJR Facts" /> As of 2025, about 30 people work in the fact-checking department.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=McIntosh |first=Fergus |date=January 11, 2025 |title=What's a Fact, Anyway? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/whats-a-fact-anyway |access-date=January 13, 2025 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>
At least two defamation lawsuits have been filed over articles published in the magazine, though neither were won by the plaintiff. Two 1983 articles by Janet Malcolm about Sigmund Freud's legacy led to a lawsuit from writer Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, who claimed that Malcolm had fabricated quotes attributed to him.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carmody |first=Deirdre |date=May 30, 1993 |title=Despite Malcolm Trial, Editors Elsewhere Vouch for Accuracy of Their Work |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D81030F933A05756C0A965958260 |url-status=live |access-date=February 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405142605/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/30/us/despite-malcolm-trial-editors-elsewhere-vouch-for-accuracy-of-their-work.html |archive-date=April 5, 2022}}</ref> After years of proceedings and appeals, a jury found in Malcolm's favor in 1994.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=20%2F |last=Boynton |first=Robert |title=Till Press Do Us Part: The Trial of Janet Malcolm and Jeffrey Masson. |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=November 28, 1994 |access-date=May 3, 2023 |archive-date=January 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109060722/http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=20%2F |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, David Grann wrote an article for the magazine about art expert Peter Paul Biro that scrutinized and expressed skepticism about Biro's stated methods to identify forgeries.<ref name="villagevoice.com">{{Cite news |last=Samaha |first=Albert |date=August 5, 2013 |title=Art Authenticator Loses Defamation Suit Against the New Yorker |work=The Village Voice Blog |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/08/peter_paul_biro_loses_suit_new_yorker.php |url-status=dead |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111175347/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/08/peter_paul_biro_loses_suit_new_yorker.php |archive-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref> Biro sued ''The New Yorker'' for defamation, alongside multiple other news outlets that reported on the article, but the case was summarily dismissed.<ref name="villagevoice.com" /><ref>Julia Filip, [http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/01/37847.htm "Art Analyst Sues ''The New Yorker''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712202854/http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/01/37847.htm |date=July 12, 2011}} Courthouse News Service (July 1, 2011).</ref><ref name="adweek.com">Dylan Byers, [http://www.adweek.com/news/press/forensic-art-expert-sues-new-yorker-author-133109 "Forensic Art Expert Sues ''New Yorker'' – Author Wants $2 million for defamation over David Grann piece"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815030944/http://www.adweek.com/news/press/forensic-art-expert-sues-new-yorker-author-133109 |date=August 15, 2015}}, ''Adweek'', June 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&id=312 11 Civ. 4442 (JPO) ''Peter Paul Biro v. ... David Grann ...''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203010028/http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&id=312 |date=February 3, 2016}}, United States District Court – Southern District of New York</ref>
== Readership == According to a 2009 survey-based estimate of magazine audiences by MediaMark Research, the average ''New Yorker'' reader was 47.8 years old, with a household income of $91,359.<ref name="PewSOM">{{citation|title=The State of the News Media 2010<!--Report published 2010, using 2009 data.-->|publisher=Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism|url=http://stateofthemedia.org/2010/|chapter=Magazines – Audience|chapter-url=http://stateofthemedia.org/2010/magazines-summary-essay/audience/|access-date=2025-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318195303/http://stateofthemedia.org/2010/magazines-summary-essay/audience/|archive-date=2011-03-18|quote=Readers of news magazines tend to be both older and wealthier than the population as a whole.}}</ref> In the same period, the average household income in the United States was $58,898.<ref name="PewSOM" />
Politically, the magazine's readership holds generally liberal views. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey, 77% of ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s readers have left-of-center political values, and 52% of them hold "consistently liberal" political values.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 21, 2014 |title=Where New Yorker's Audience Fits on the Political Spectrum |language=en-US |work=Pew Research Center's Journalism Project |url=http://www.journalism.org/interactives/media-polarization/outlet/new-yorker/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604045409/http://www.journalism.org/interactives/media-polarization/outlet/new-yorker/ |archive-date=June 4, 2018}}</ref>
== List of books about ''The New Yorker'' == {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Ross and The New Yorker'' by Dale Kramer (1951) * ''The Years with Ross'' by James Thurber (1959) * ''Ross, The New Yorker and Me'' by Jane Grant (1968) * ''Here at The New Yorker'' by Brendan Gill (1975) * ''About the New Yorker and Me'' by E.J. Kahn (1979) * ''Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White'' by Linda H. Davis (1987) * ''At Seventy: More about The New Yorker and Me'' by E. J. Kahn (1988) * ''Katharine and E. B. White: An Affectionate Memoir'' by Isabel Russell (1988) * ''The Last Days of The New Yorker'' by Gigi Mahon (1989) * ''The Smart Magazines: Fifty Years of Literary Revelry and High Jinks at Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and the Smart Set by George H. Douglas'' (1991) * ''Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker'' by Thomas Kunkel (1997) * ''Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker'' by Lillian Ross (1998) * ''Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing'' by Ved Mehta (1998) * ''Some Times in America: And a Life in a Year at The New Yorker'' by Alexander Chancellor (1999) * ''The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury'' by Mary F. Corey (1999) * ''About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made'' by Ben Yagoda (2000) * ''Covering the New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution'' by Françoise Mouly (2000) * ''Defining New Yorker Humor'' by Judith Yaross Lee (2000) * ''Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker'', by Renata Adler (2000) * ''Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross'' edited by Thomas Kunkel (2000; letters covering the years 1917 to 1951) * ''New Yorker Profiles 1925–1992: A Bibliography'' compiled by Gail Shivel (2000) * ''NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing – the Marketing of Culture'' by John Seabrook (2000) * ''Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker'' by David Remnick and Henry Finder (2002) * ''Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art'' (2003) * ''A Life of Privilege, Mostly'' by Gardner Botsford (2003) * ''Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker'' by Angela Bourke (2004) * ''Better than Sane'' by Alison Rose(2004) * ''Let Me Finish'' by Roger Angell (Harcourt, 2006) * ''The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker'' by Janet Groth (2012) * ''My Mistake: A Memoir'' by Daniel Menaker (2013) * ''Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen'' by Mary Norris (2015) * ''Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber and the Golden Age of The New Yorker'' by Thomas Vinciguerra (2015) * ''Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist'' by Michael Maslin (2016) * ''Irish Writers and ''The New Yorker'' in the Mid-Twentieth Century'' by Yen-Chi Wu (2026) {{Div col end}}
== {{anchor|Films}} ''The New Yorker'' in film == ''The New Yorker'' and its history have served as the source of inspiration for multiple films, and many of its fiction and nonfiction pieces have been adapted for the big screen. ''The New Yorker'' also distributes short films as part of its Screening Room series, which frequently compete for Academy Awards.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Two New Yorker Films Receive 2026 Oscar Nominations |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 22, 2026 |access-date=January 27, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/two-new-yorker-films-receive-2026-oscar-nominations}}</ref>
===Films about ''The New Yorker''=== In ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'', a film about the Algonquin Round Table starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker, Sam Robards portrays founding editor Harold Ross trying to drum up support for his fledgling publication.
The magazine's former editor, William Shawn, is portrayed in ''Capote'' (2005), ''Infamous'' (2006), and ''Hannah Arendt'' (2012).
The 2015 documentary ''Very Semi-Serious'', directed by Leah Wolchok and produced by Wolchok and Davina Pardo (Redora Films), presents a behind-the-scenes look at the cartoons of ''The New Yorker''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoffman |first=Jordan |date=2015-11-19 |title=Very Semi-Serious review – droll doc goes inside the New Yorker's cartoon shed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/19/very-semi-serious-review-new-yorker-cartoonist-documentary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501173407/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/19/very-semi-serious-review-new-yorker-cartoonist-documentary |archive-date=May 1, 2021 |access-date=2021-05-01 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> <!-- Commented out: [[File:New Yorker 1980 10 27 p194.jpg|frame|Example of former semicolon usage from issue of October 27, 1980. On the third line, the semicolon after "cormorants" appears before the closing quotation mark.]] Warning: A file by that name has been deleted or moved. The deletion and move log for this page are provided here for convenience: 2008-09-02T21:58:44 Peripitus talk contribs deleted page File:New Yorker 1980 10 27 p194.jpg (per Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2008_August_27) (thank)-->
=== List of films about ''The New Yorker'' === * ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' (1994) * ''James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times'' (2000) * ''Joe Gould's Secret'' (2000) * ''Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker'' (2001)<ref>{{Cite news |author=Caryn James |date=May 13, 2001 |title=Neighborhood Report: CRITIC'S VIEW; How The New Yorker Took Wing In Its Larval Years With Ross |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119053537/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>Quick Vids by Gary Handman, American Libraries, May 2006.</ref> * ''Very Semi-Serious'' (2015) * ''The New Yorker at 100'' (2025), a documentary about the magazine's centenary * Wes Anderson's ''The French Dispatch'' (2021) is an overt homage to the magazine;<ref>{{Cite magazine | url = https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | title = The New Yorker Writers and Editors Who Inspired The French Dispatch | last = Overbey | first = Erin | magazine = The New Yorker | date = September 24, 2021 | access-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240214154916/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | url-status = live }}</ref> the film consists of several long-form "stories", all in the style of various ''New Yorker'' contributors.
===Films based on ''New Yorker'' articles=== {{See also|Condé Nast Entertainment}}
Numerous notable films have been adapted from pieces that first appeared in ''The New Yorker'', including ''Brokeback Mountain'' (2005), an adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's short story in the October 13, 1997, issue;<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/10/13/brokeback-mountain |last=Proulx |first=Annie |title=Brokeback Mountain |publication-date=October 6, 1998 |date=October 10, 1997 |access-date=July 30, 2025}}</ref> ''The Hours'' (2002), an adaptation of Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel of the same name, which was excerpted in ''The New Yorker'';<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/09/21/a-room-at-the-normandy |last=Cunningham |first=Michael |title=A Room at the Normandy |publication-date=September 13, 1998 |date=September 20, 1998 |access-date=July 15, 2025}}</ref> and ''Adaptation'' (2002), which Charlie Kaufman based on Susan Orlean's ''The Orchid Thief'', itself adapted from a ''New Yorker'' article.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Orlean |first=Susan |publication-date=January 15, 1995 |date=January 23, 1995 |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever |title=Orchid Fever |access-date=July 30, 2025}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ List of films based on ''New Yorker'' articles |- ! Year !! Title !! Director !! Original article; Issue date |- | 2026 || ''Coyote vs. Acme'' || Dave Green || "Coyote v. Acme", by Ian Frazier; February 26, 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coyote v. Acme |last=Frazier |first=Ian |magazine=The New Yorker |date=February 26, 1990 |access-date=August 27, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme}}</ref> |- | 2022 || ''Spiderhead'' || Joseph Kosinski || "Escape from Spiderhead", by George Saunders; December 20 & 27, 2010<ref>{{Cite web |title=Escape from Spiderhead |last=Saunders |first=George |magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 20, 2010 |access-date=August 27, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/escape-from-spiderhead}}</ref> |- | 2013 || ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' <sup>1</sup> || Ben Stiller || "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber; March 11, 1939<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |last=Thurber |first=James |date=March 18, 1939 |access-date=December 10, 2025 |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber }}</ref> |- | 2008 || ''Flash of Genius'' || Marc Abraham || "The Flash of Genius" by John Seabrook; January 11, 1993<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Flash of Genius |last=Seabrook |first=John |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 11, 1993 |access-date=December 10, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/01/11/the-flash-of-genius }}</ref> |- | 2006 || ''Away from Her'' || Sarah Polley || "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro; December 27, 1999<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Bear Came Over the Mountain |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Munro |first=Alice |date=December 27, 1999 |access-date=December 10, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/12/27/the-bear-came-over-the-mountain}}</ref> |- | 2006 || ''The Namesake'' || Mira Nair || "Gogol" by Jhumpa Lahiri; June 16, 2003<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gogol |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Lahiri |first=Jhumpa |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/06/16/gogol |date=June 16, 2003 |access-date=December 10, 2025}}</ref> |- | 2006 || ''The Bridge'' <sup>2</sup> || Eric Steel || "Jumpers" by Tad Friend; October 13, 2003<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers |title=Jumpers |date=October 13, 2003 |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Friend |first=Tad |access-date=December 10, 2025}}</ref> |- | 2005 || ''Brokeback Mountain'' || Ang Lee || "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx; October 13, 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brokeback Mountain |last=Proulx |first=Annie |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 13, 1997 |access-date=December 10, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/10/13/brokeback-mountain}}</ref> |- | 2005 || ''Everything is Illuminated'' || Liev Schreiber || "The Very Rigid Search" by Jonathan Safran Foer; June 18, 2001<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Very Rigid Search |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Safran Foer |first=Jonathan |date=June 18, 2001 |access-date=December 10, 2025 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/06/18/the-very-rigid-search}}</ref> |- | 2002 || ''The Hours'' || Stephen Daldry || "A Room at the Normandy" by Michael Cunningham; September 21, 1998<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Room at the Normandy |date=September 21, 1998 |access-date=January 12, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/09/21/a-room-at-the-normandy |last=Cunningham |first=Michael |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> |- | 2002 || ''Adaptation'' || Spike Jonze || "Orchid Fever" by Susan Orlean; January 23, 1995<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orchid Fever |last=Orlean |first=Susan |magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 23, 1995 |access-date=January 12, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever}}</ref> |- | 2001 || ''Iris'' || Richard Eyre || "Elegy for Iris" by John Bayley; July 27, 1998<ref>{{cite web |title=Elegy for Iris |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Bayley |first=John |date=July 27, 1998 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/07/27/elegy-for-iris}}</ref> |- | 1999 || ''Angela's Ashes'' || Alan Parker || "Sorry for Your Troubles" by Frank McCourt; June 10, 1996<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sorry for Your Troubles |magazine=The New Yorker |last=McCourt |first=Frank |date=June 10, 1996 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/06/10/sorry-for-your-troubles-angelas-ashes-excerpt }}</ref> |- | 1999 || ''Boys Don't Cry'' || Kimberly Peirce || "The Humboldt Murders" by John Gregory Dunne; January 13, 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Humboldt Murders |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Dunne |first=John Gregory |date=January 13, 1997 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/01/13/the-humboldt-murders}}</ref> |- | 1991 || ''The Addams Family'' <sup>3</sup> || Barry Sonnenfeld || various works by Charles Addams |- | 1989 || ''Casualties of War'' || Brian de Palma || "Casualties of War" by Daniel Lang; October 18, 1969<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Lang |first1=Daniel |title=Casualties of War |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 18, 1969 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1969/10/18/casualties-of-war}}</ref> |- | 1968 || ''The Swimmer'' || Frank Perry || "The Swimmer" by John Cheever; July 18, 1964<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Swimmer |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Cheever |first=John |date=July 18, 1964 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/18/the-swimmer}}</ref> |- | 1967 || ''In Cold Blood'' || Richard Brooks || "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote; September 25, 1965<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Capote |first=Truman |title=In Cold Blood: The Last to See Them Alive |date=September 25, 1965 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1965/09/25/in-cold-blood-the-last-to-see-them-alive}}</ref> (serialized, in four parts) |- | 1957 || ''Pal Joey'' || George Sidney || "Pal Joey" by John O'Hara; October 22, 1938<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=The New Yorker |last=O'Hara |first=John |title=Pal Joey |date=October 22, 1938 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1938/10/22/pal-joey}}</ref> (and other short stories) |- | 1950 || ''Mister 880'' || Edmund Goulding || "Old Eight Eighty" by St. Clair McKelway; August 27, 1949<ref>{{Cite web |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Old Eight Eighty |date=August 27, 1949 |access-date=January 26, 2026 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/08/27/old-eight-eighty-i}}</ref> (serialized, in three parts) |- | 1944 || ''Meet Me in St. Louis'' || Vincente Minelli || "5135 Kensington" by Sally Benson; June 14, 1941<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1941/06/14/5135-kensington |last=Benson |first=Sally |title=5135 Kensington |magazine=The New Yorker |date=June 14, 1941 |access-date=January 12, 2026}}</ref> (and other short stories) |- | 1941 || ''Junior Miss'' || George Seaton || "Junior Miss" by Sally Benson; October 28, 1939<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/10/28/junior-miss |last=Benson |first=Sally |date=October 28, 1939 |access-date=January 12, 2026 |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Junior Miss}}</ref> (and other short stories) |}
{{-}} '''Notes''' # Also a remake of the 1947 film of the same name. # Documentary # Also its sequel ''Addams Family Values'' (1993), and subsequent adaptations, including an animated film and the 2022 Netflix show ''Wednesday''.
== See also == * List of ''The New Yorker'' contributors * ''The New Yorker'' Festival * ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'', a radio program carried by public radio stations
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== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{Sister project links|wikt=no|commonscat=yes|n=no|q=no|b=no|v=no}} * {{Official website}} * [https://archive.org/details/pub_the-new-yorker?sort=-date ''The New Yorker''] at the Internet Archive * [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atcwu19PclZddGZKeUxKdUdQTXFkYVlMTUo0YjBZa3c&usp=sharing ''New Yorker'' Fiction Database 1925–2013] * [http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A21722915 A Guided Tour Through ''The New Yorker''] at h2g2 * [https://www.gregkogan.com/journal/how-to-submit-cartoons-to-the-new-yorker/ How to Submit Cartoons to ''The New Yorker''] – Greg Kogan
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