American magazine supplement
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.
History
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19th century
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Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper.
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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]
20th century
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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.
21st century
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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
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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".
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In 2014,
Jake Silverstein
, who had been editor-in-chief at
Texas Monthly
, replaced Lindgren as editor of the Sunday magazine.
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Features
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Poetry
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U.S. Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey
selects and introduces poems weekly, including from poets
Tomas Transtromer
,
Carlos Pintado
, and
Gregory Pardlo
.
Puzzles
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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".
The Funny Pages
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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".
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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".
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Strips
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Title
|
Artist
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Start Date
|
End Date
|
# of Chapters
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Building Stories
|
Chris Ware
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September 18, 2005
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April 16, 2006
|
30
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La Maggie La Loca
|
Jaime Hernandez
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April 23, 2006
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September 3, 2006
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20
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George Sprott (1894-1975)
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Seth
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September 17, 2006
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March 25, 2007
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25
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Watergate Sue
[17]
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Megan Kelso
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April 1, 2007
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September 9, 2007
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24
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Mister Wonderful
[18]
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Daniel Clowes
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September 16, 2007
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February 10, 2008
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20
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Low Moon
[19]
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Jason
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February 17, 2008
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June 22, 2008
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17
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The Murder of the Terminal Patient
[20]
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Rutu Modan
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June 29, 2008
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November 2, 2008
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17
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Prime Baby
[21]
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Gene Yang
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November 9, 2008
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April 5, 2009
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18
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Sunday serials
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Title
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Author
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Start Date
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End Date
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# of Chapters
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Comfort to the Enemy
|
Elmore Leonard
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September 18, 2005
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December 18, 2005
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14
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At Risk
|
Patricia Cornwell
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January 8, 2006
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April 16, 2006
|
15
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Limitations
|
Scott Turow
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April 23, 2006
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August 6, 2006
|
16
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The Overlook
|
Michael Connelly
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September 17, 2006
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January 21, 2007
|
16
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Gentlemen of the Road
|
Michael Chabon
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January 28, 2007
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May 6, 2007
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15
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Doors Open
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Ian Rankin
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May 13, 2007
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August 19, 2007
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15
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The Dead and the Naked
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Cathleen Schine
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September 9, 2007
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January 6, 2008
|
16
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The Lemur
|
John Banville
(as Benjamin Black)
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January 13, 2008
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April 27, 2008
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15
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Mrs. Corbett's Request
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Colin Harrison
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May 4, 2008
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August 17, 2008
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15
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The Girl in the Green Raincoat
[22]
|
Laura Lippman
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September 7, 2008
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1 (to date)
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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.
References
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