SOURCE: "The New Yorker, Old and New," in The Sewanee Review, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 4, Fall, 1975, pp. 676-85.
Donaldson is an American critic and educator who has written several studies of twentieth-century American literary figures, including Ernest Hemingway and John Cheever. In the following excerpt from a review of several books about the New Yorker, Donaldson examines changes in the magazine's content and editorial policies over the years.
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