The New Yorker is the name of the long running and widely respected magazine (debuted on February 21, 1925), well known for its success at popularizing the short story as a literary form in English in the mid-20th century. The magazine also is known for its journalism -- John Hersey's Hiroshima filled an entire issue -- and for its criticism and essays, particularly the short "Talk of the Town" pieces. Some readers look only for the cartoons and short humorous pieces.

Contributors have included:

• Charles Addams - cartoonist
• Woody Allen - humorist
• Roger Angell, fiction editor and baseball writer
• Peter Arno[?] - cartoonist
• Robert Benchley[?], humorist and theater critic
• George Booth[?] - cartoonist
• E.L. Doctorow - fiction writer
• Wolcott Gibbs[?] - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and short story writer
• Seymour M. Hersh[?] - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
• Pauline Kael[?], film critic
• A.J. Liebling[?], journalism critic
• Janet Malcolm
• S.J. Perelman[?] - humorist
• J. D. Salinger - short story writer
• Saul Steinberg[?] - illustrator
• James Thurber - cartoonist and essayist
• John Updike - fiction, essayist
• E. B. White - essayist and editor

External Link

• www.newyorker.com (http://www.newyorker.com/)