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''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
''. 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. Its puzzles have been popular since their introduction.


History

Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper.The New York Times Company
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. Retrieved on 2009-03-13.
In the early decades, it was a section of the
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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
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, comic strips and gossip columns from the paper, and is generally credited with saving ''The New York Times'' from financial ruin."The Kingdom and the Cabbage"
''
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'', 1977-08-15. Retrieved on 2007-05-07.
In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting
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, a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success. In its early years, ''The New York Times Magazine'' began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, from
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and
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to numerous sitting and future
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. 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. During his tenure, writers such as
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Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
, 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. In 1979, the magazine began publishing
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–winning journalist
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's "
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", a column discussing issues of English grammar, use and
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. Safire's column steadily gained popularity and by 1990 was generating "more mail than anything else" in the magazine. The year 1999 saw the debut of "The Ethicist", an advice column written by humorist Randy Cohen that quickly became a highly contentious part of the magazine. In 2011, Ariel 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
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—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
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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 September 2010, as part of a greater effort to reinvigorate the magazine, ''Times'' editor
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hired former staff member and then-editor of ''
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'', Hugo Lindgren, as the editor of ''The New York Times Magazine''. 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 and then hired then-editor of TNR.com, ''
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'' magazine's website, Greg Veis, to edit the "front of the book" section of the magazine. In December 2010, Lindgren hired Joel Lovell, formerly story editor at '' GQ'' magazine, as deputy editor. 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". In 2014,
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, who had been editor-in-chief at ''Texas Monthly'', replaced Lindgren as editor of the Sunday magazine.


Supplements

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
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published every other month, and ''KEY'', a real estate magazine published twice a year.


Poetry

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selects and introduces poems weekly, including from poets Tomas Tranströmer, Carlos Pintado, and Gregory Pardlo.


Puzzles

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''

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"."From the Editors; The Funny Pages"
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'', 2005-09-18. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
Although ''The Funny Pages'' is no longer published in the magazine, it was made up of three parts: the Strip (a multipart
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that spanned weeks), the Sunday Serial (a
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serial novel that also spanned weeks), and True-Life Tales (a humorous personal
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, 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".


Strips


Sunday serials

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


External links


Official website
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