Weales is an American novelist, critic, and educator. In the following excerpt, he provides an overview of the humorous writings that appeared during the early years of the New Yorker.
Martin is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, he examines the development of a distinctive brand of humor and satire in the New Yorker.
Angell is an American author who has written several books about baseball and was the fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1956 to 1994. In the following essay, he reflects on the criteria for accepting works of fiction submitted to the New Yorker.
An American essayist and critic, Macdonald was a noted proponent of various radical causes from the mid-1930s until his death in 1982. In the following excerpt, he criticizes the attitudes and editorial style that he considers representative of the New Yorker.
Hausdorff is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, he analyzes the editorial tone of the New Yorker as revealed by its contributors' treatment of political and economic subjects during the 1920s and 1930s.
Peterson is an American educator and critic who has written numerous works on magazines and journalism. In the following excerpt, he traces the growth of the New Yorker from its origin through 1964.
An American educator and journalist, Drewry wrote on communications and American media. In the following excerpt, he surveys New Yorker profiles of famous journalists, including cartoonists, press agents, and radio commentators, that appeared during the magazine's first twenty years of publication.
Inge is an American critic and educator who has described himself as "a literary and cultural historian with strong interests in editing, bibliography, and criticism," as well as "nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, with specific focuses on American humor, Southern ethnic writing, twentieth-century fiction, American literature abroad, popular culture, comic art, biography, and intellectual history." In the following excerpt, Inge examines the influ...
An American critic, Kramer is best known for his books and essays on modern art. In the following review of James Thurber's The Years with Ross, Kramer characterizes the work published in the New Yorker as essentially trivial and bland.
Shown joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1933 as a reporter for the magazine's "Talk of the Town" section and succeeded Harold Ross as editor of the magazine in 1952. In the following excerpt, he discusses Ross's editorship of the magazine.
As a longtime literary critic for the New Yorker, Hyman rose to a prominent position in American literature during the middle decades of the twentieth century. He is noted for his belief that much of modern literary criticism should depend on knowledge received from disciplines outside the field of literature, and many of his critical essays rely on theories gleaned from such disciplines as cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion. In the following excerpt, he provides an overview of the...
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.
An American author, Brookhiser has written several books on American politics and was a speech writer for George Bush. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as a senior editor and later managing editor of the National Review. In the following essay, he offers an attack on the features, contributors, and editorial policies of the New Yorker under the editorship of William Shawn.
Whyte is an American author who wrote several studies of American business, including The Organization Man (1956). In the following excerpt, he provides a satirical study of the prose style employed by various New Yorker writers.
Trilling was one of the twentieth century's most significant and influential American literary and social critics, and he is often called the single most important American critic to apply Freudian psychological theories to literature. In the following excerpt, Trilling discusses short stories published by the New Yorker as works of "great moral intensity."
In the following excerpt, the critic notes changes in the editorial stance and subject matter of the New Yorker as a possible reaction to the social and political upheavals of the late 1960s.
An American journalist, Diamond has worked as an editor for several prominent American publications, including New York magazine and Esquire. He has also written several book-length studies of American television and Jimmy Carter: A Character Portrait (1980). In the following essay, he reflects on the editorial character of the New Yorker under William Shawn and speculates on the changes pending in the magazine's policy following its purchase by Advance Publications.
An American author, Hamburger worked as a staff writer for the New Yorker beginning in 1939. In the following essay, he reminisces about various figures and editorial characteristics associated with the magazine.
An American journalist, Harrigan has had a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent covering assignments in Vietnam, Cuba, South Africa, and other countries. In the following essay, he offers a critical evaluation of the New Yorker as a magazine whose editorial attitudes betray a complacent ignorance of the social and political realities of American life.
Woodcock is a Canadian educator, editor, and critic best known for his biographies of George Orwell and Thomas Merton. He also founded Canada's most important literary journal, Canadian Literature, and has written extensively on the literature of Canada. In the following excerpt, he offers an analysis of the influence of the New Yorker on American journalism and literature.
An American editor, Shawn joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1933 as a reporter for the magazine's "Talk of the Town" section. In 1952 he succeeded Harold Ross as editor of the magazine. In the following excerpt, which appeared as an unsigned "Talk of the Town "feature in anticipation of a merger between the New Yorker Magazine, Inc., and Advance Publications, Inc., the editors of the New Yorker reaffirm the magazine's long-standing policy of "editorial i...
In the following excerpt, the critic offers observations on the more liberal social and political attitudes reflected by the New Yorker during the volatile era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
