Line #10 Magazine/TheNewYorker


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2	[[caption-width-right:310:[[{{Mascot}} Eustace]] [[TheDandy Tilley]] with butterfly, shown on the debut issue's cover.]]
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4	''The New Yorker'' is a weekly literary, cultural, and news magazine [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin published in]] UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity by print media giant Condé Nast. Since its debut on February 21, 1925, it has [[PrintLongRunners produced more than 4,000 issues]]. Its website features more expansive content, including videos, podcasts, and additional short news articles that did not get published in the print edition.
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6	The magazine has gained a reputation for being both painfully highbrow (or high-middlebrow, at least) and politically liberal, and for devoting a significant portion of its contents to cultural and lifestyle explorations of New York and its environs. However, despite these characteristics it is read widely by non-New Yorkers, and is recognized throughout the United States as a kind of shorthand signifier of metropolitan and urbane sensibilities, similar to broadcasting's Creator/{{NPR}} and Creator/{{PBS}}.
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8	''The New Yorker'' is also renowned for its iconic cover art, as well as the short fiction, essays, poems, and one-panel cartoons that are included in every issue.
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10	It is also noted for its long nonfiction articles, such as John Hersey's 31,000-word piece on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was published as the only article of the August 31, 1946 edition of the magazine.
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12	In 2016 it spun off a one-season video series called ''The New Yorker Presents'', available via [[Creator/AmazonStudios Amazon Prime]] and offering a format not entirely unlike the magazine's, presenting short segments covering a variety of topics and using the magazine's iconic cartoons as intermissions.
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15	!!Contributors with TV Tropes pages:
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18	* Creator/CharlesAddams
19	* Creator/WoodyAllen
20	* Creator/MargaretAtwood
21	* Creator/NoahBaumbach
22	* Creator/RayBradbury
23	* Creator/TrumanCapote
24	* [[Literature/TheStoriesOfJohnCheever John Cheever]]
25	* Creator/TaNehisiCoates
26	* Creator/RoaldDahl
27	* Creator/JesseEisenberg
28	* Creator/JonathanFranzen
29	* Creator/ShirleyJackson
30	* Creator/PaulineKael
31	* [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]]
32	* Creator/StephenKing
33	* Creator/SteveMartin
34	* Creator/RandallMunroe ([[https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/randall-munroe contributions]])
35	* Creator/VladimirNabokov
36	* Creator/OgdenNash
37	* Creator/DorothyParker
38	* Creator/SJPerelman
39	* Creator/PhilipRoth
40	* Creator/JDSalinger
41	* Creator/ArtSpiegelman
42	* Creator/WilliamSteig
43	* Creator/JamesThurber
44	* Creator/JohnUpdike
45	* Creator/EBWhite
46	* Creator/GahanWilson
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50	!!''The New Yorker'' has featured examples of:
51	* AlliterativeTitle: [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/steve-king-and-the-case-of-the-cantaloupe-calves "Steve King and the Case of the Cantaloupe Calves"]], a 2013 article responding to then-congressman King's comment about illegal immigrants with "calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert".
52	* AntiquatedLinguistics: In addition to being sticklers for [[GrammarNazi grammar]] and omitting needless verbiage, the magazine's copy-editing department is known for their old-fashioned stylistic choices, such as spelling out all numbers in full no matter how convoluted they are, "closed" punctuation (i.e. using way more commas and periods than what is probably strictly necessary), hyphenating words that have long dropped the hyphen in common usage (e.g. "to-day" and "teen-ager"), using outdated word spellings that are almost never used elsewhere (e.g. "focussed" instead of "focused"), and [[PunctuationShaker using a diaeresis]] instead of a hyphen (e.g. "coöperate", instead of "co-operate" or "cooperate").
53	* BigApplesauce: One of the major promoters of the trope, and even national subscribers will be hearing about events that are obviously only in New York, as the rag has a section devoted solely to arts and entertainment in the Big Apple.
54	* BlackComedy: A specialty of Creator/CharlesAddams' cartoons.
55	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Seen in the covers from [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5909507b2179605b11ad2bc4/master/w_380,c_limit/1992_05_25.jpg May 25, 1992]] and [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59095b4debe912338a374364/master/w_380,c_limit/2014_08_04.jpg August 4, 2014]].
56	* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: In this case, [[https://thenewyorkercovers.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/when-duty-palls/ Santa's reindeer]], on the December 17, 2012 cover.
57	* CausticCritic: Many of the magazine's arts critics were of this type, including possibly the most caustic of them all, Creator/PaulineKael. Richard Brody, one of the current (as of 2023) film critics, dismissed ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'' for having the gall to have a main character worship a jazz drummer derided as not being actually jazz with a "Buddy [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] Rich".
58	* CreatorProvincialism: Lampshaded in "View of the World from 9th Avenue", Saul Steinberg's cover illustration for the March 29, 1976 issue (seen as the page image for the aforementioned BigApplesauce trope).
59	%%* DadaComics
60	* EmbarrassingBrowserHistory: In [[https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-legendary-sword-of-light this]] comic, a warrior comes upon a legendary sword in a stone and is told that [[OnlyThePureOfHeart only one with a pure soul can lift it]]. He proceeds to take out his cellphone and start deleting his search history.
61	* FrazettaMan: The titular "ip" of George Booth's 1975 comic "Ip Gissa Gul," a hulking, talking ([[YouNoTakeCandle sort of]]) apeman.
62	* {{GIRL}}: Started the 90s internet meme of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"]], except the "girl" happens to be [[FunnyAnimals a dog.]]
63	* GonzoJournalism: Many of its interviews, coverage of world events, and character studies are personal and erudite, more novelistic than journalistic.
64	%%* {{Joisey}}: Like any good Manhattanite.
65	* KidsHateVegetables: A famous 1928 cartoon, drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by Creator/EBWhite, showed a mother trying to get her young daughter to eat her vegetables:
66	-->'''Mother:''' It's broccoli, dear.\
67	'''Daughter:''' I say it's spinach, and I say [[PrecisionFStrike the hell with it]].
68	* LastSupperSteal: Seen in [[https://condenaststore.com/featured/the-last-supper-jack-ziegler.html this cartoon]], and [[https://condenaststore.com/featured/the-last-brunch-roz-chast.html this one]].
69	* LogoJoke: For decades it was traditional for the magazine to commemorate its anniversary each February by reproducing Rea Irvin's iconic cover illustration from the inaugural issue, shown above. However, in recent years the anniversary issues have featured new cover art that re-imagines or parodies the original. (Examples [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590950bac14b3c606c103506/master/w_380,c_limit/2008_02_11.jpg here]], [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590950dbebe912338a372586/master/w_380,c_limit/2013_02_11.jpg here]], [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5a7487eb28a0495e57013929/master/w_380,c_limit/cover_180212_400.gif here]], [[https://media.newyorker.com/photos/61fc291be79a5725f875c340/master/w_380,c_limit/2022_02_14.jpg here]].)
70	* MantisMatingMeal: Frequent fodder for cartoons.
71	** [[https://condenaststore.com/featured/two-praying-mantises-facing-each-other-joe-dator.html From Joe Dator]], the female mantis tells the male she's going to have him help her assemble some shelves between sex and killing him.
72	** Jason Chatfield once [[https://www.jasonchatfield.com/blog/tag/praying+mantis posted]] an uncaptioned picture of two male mantises at a cafe, one of whom was missing his head, and let the readers submit captions. For example:
73	--->"So, does she have a sister?"
74	* {{Mascot}}: Eustace Tilley, the top-hatted [[RegencyEngland Regency]]-era [[TheDandy dandy]] first depicted in the aforementioned inaugural cover examining a butterfly through his monocle.
75	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: In [[https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-legendary-sword-of-light this]] comic, the warrior from [[https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-lord-of-all-evil a previous comic]] comes upon a legendary sword in a stone and is told that [[OnlyThePureOfHeart only one with a pure soul can lift it]], by a tiny WingedHumanoid and PointyEars being that's called a "fairy".
76	* PhonyArticle: House cartoonists are sometimes used to advertise products.
77	* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning: A cartoon has a teacher object to a child's drawing subtitled "Happy Mothers' Day" instead of "Happy Mother's Day." The child clarifies that he has two mothers.
78	* {{Satire}}: ''The Borowitz Report'' is a comedy section of the magazine written in the style of its own more factual fare, leading to [[PoesLaw much confusion among unfamiliar readers]], though there is a disclaimer at the head of every article telling the reader that it is satire.
79	* ScoutOut: A 1951 cover illustration by Rea Irvin depicts a group of scouts sharing a spooky story around the campfire. (It's used as the page image for GhostStory, in fact.)
80	* SeriousBusiness: The proper rules of grammar must ''always'' be observed!
81	* TheShrink: A staple of the cartoons. A (by no means complete) selection of examples through the decades can be found [[https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/cartoon-desk/cartoons-about-therapy-from-the-past-century-well-almost here]].
82	* SodaCandySplosion: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_m0kweelqhp1rq8nnho1_1280_jpg.png This]] unused cover by Barry Blitt depicts [[MiddleEasternTerrorists two Muslim men]] on an airplane, with one covertly handing a pack of Mentos to the other, who has a cup of Diet Coke prepared for explosive purposes.
83	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Parodied in [[https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/the-lord-of-all-evil this]] comic. A fantasy hero fights his way to a demon lord, having slain his minions along the way. When the demon lord hears this, he starts wondering aloud about how to deal with the aftermath.
84	-->'''Demon Lord:''' Like, what's the process here? Do I contact their families? This is going to be, like, a whole thing, isn't it? Y'know, I gotta say, man, they call me the lord of all evil, but I've never killed fifty people....
85	* YouTuberApologyParody: Tucker Carlson [[https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/tucker-carlson-fears-that-leaked-texts-of-him-telling-truth-will-kill-his-brand gets one]] in ''The Borowitz Report'' where he tearfully apologizes for leaked texts where he tells the truth "in a moment of weakness."

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