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<\/a><\/p>\nWe hope you are enjoying this long, chilly President’s Day.\u00a0 It would be a good time to cuddle up on the sofa and read the New Yorker<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Me, I’ve loved the cartoons since I was a kid.\u00a0 But now that I’m grown up, the articles are pretty interesting too.<\/p>\n This title was founded in 1925 as a magazine of “gaity, wit, and satire”.\u00a0 From the beginning, it published social and political commentary, short fiction, satire, and poetry, cartoons and in-depth news coverage. The history of its staff writers looks like a Who’s Who of American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These luminaries have included Truman Capote, John Cheever, John Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Alice Munro, and Stephen King, to name just a few.<\/p>\n The magazine also includes detailed reviews of movies and events around New York City, even though it has a large circulation outside of the city.\u00a0 As I mentioned above, the cartoons have always been a feature.\u00a0 Since 2005 the magazine has published an uncaptioned one on the last page of every issue as a contest to allow readers to provide the funniest text.<\/p>\n This magazine turns 91 next week.\u00a0 Being the outlet for a bunch of essayists, they wrote some essays about the magazine over time.\u00a0 You can look them up here:<\/p>\n Out Loud: Ninety Years of The New Yorker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n