New Yorker 100

In 1925, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s founding editor, envisioned a magazine of wit, reporting, fiction, art, and criticism—“a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan life.” In 2025, The New Yorker celebrated its hundredth anniversary. Here, a collection of highlights from that milestone year: the special centenary issues, a series of pieces that revisit favorites from the archive, curated story collections, and more.

—David Remnick, editor

February 17 & 24, 2025

The 100th
Anniversary Issue

Jill Lepore on the letters of New Yorker editors and writers, Adam Gopnik on Ernest Hemingway and Lillian Ross, and David Remnick on the magazine from 1925 to today. Plus: Lawrence Wright on the bond between women on death row in Texas and an order of nuns, Kathryn Schulz on learning to love the spider, Dhruv Khullar on interplanetary travel, and more.

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May 12 & 19, 2025

New York:
A Centenary Issue

Ian Frazier on sharing the city with pigeons, Eric Lach on Andrew Cuomo’s comeback and the race for mayor, and Louisa Thomas on Juan Soto and the Mets’ ascendance. Plus: Lena Dunham on leaving, Zach Helfand on parking, Jordan Salama on the undocumented workers of the outer boroughs, and more.

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September 1 & 8, 2025

The Culture Industry:
A Centenary Issue

Alex Barasch on the auteurs behind the indie film studio A24, Ruby Tandoh on the world of “The Great British Bake Off,” and Joshua Rothman on creativity in the age of artificial intelligence. Plus: Sam Knight on Sotheby’s, Kelefa Sanneh on music criticism, Alexandra Schwartz on Patricia Lockwood, and more.

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A woman with a headscarf gestures to a butterfly; Rea Irvin's dandy, Eustace Tilley, inspects a butterfly.

December 1, 2025

Our Far-Flung Correspondents:
A Centenary Issue

Ben Taub on hunting with the Inuit in Greenland, Sarah Stillman on secretive ICE deportations, and Jon Lee Anderson on years of conflict in Congo. Plus: Zach Helfand on airport lounges, Gideon Lewis-Kraus on a global theory of capitalism, fiction by Daniyal Mueenuddin, and more.

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In the Beginning

Editors and writers who shaped The New Yorker during its first decade and beyond.

Founding Editor

Harold Ross

Ross, a high-school dropout born in Colorado, was the unlikely visionary behind a new fifteen-cent “comic paper” that sought to cater to sophisticated Manhattan readers. During his tenure, from 1925 until 1951, The New Yorker established itself as a leading source of cultural criticism, humor, and reporting.

Co-Founder

Jane Grant

Grant, who is often overlooked in histories of the magazine, was the first woman reporter in the New York Times’ city room. She met Ross in Europe during the First World War, and the pair later married and started The New Yorker. Together, they recruited the magazine’s primary financial backer, Raoul Fleischmann.

Art Editor

Rea Irvin

Irvin, originally from San Francisco, designed the signature font of The New Yorker’s title and the top-hatted dandy Eustace Tilley, the figure on the début cover. Irvin was also crucial to the development of the magazine’s cartoons, whose single-line captions marked a minor revolution in illustrated humor.

Fiction Editor

Katharine S. White

White joined The New Yorker six months after its first issue, and had a sweeping influence on the magazine. In three and a half decades on the staff, White refined the publication’s comic sensibilities, cultivated women writers, and pressed for the inclusion of serious poetry.

Critic and Humorist

Dorothy Parker

“I could bite my tongue out,” Parker wrote with faux regret in a withering book review in 1928. Readers were glad she didn’t. When Parker began contributing, a year earlier, The New Yorker was struggling to find readers; her humor pieces and witty criticism increased the magazine’s influence and appeal.

Reporter

A. J. Liebling

In twenty-eight years at the magazine, Liebling, a reporter of prolific output, wrote about boxing and cuisine, newspapers and rogues. His dispatches from Europe during and after the Second World War—including a three-part series on D Day—reflected the magazine’s growing ambition and attunement to global events.

Cartoonist and Humorist

James Thurber

The New Yorker rejected twenty submissions from Thurber before publishing his first piece, in 1927. He later contributed stories such as “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and became celebrated for his comic drawings—occasionally done on the walls of The New Yorker’s offices.

Foreign Correspondent

Janet Flanner

Recruited by Jane Grant, Flanner wrote the magazine’s Letter from Paris, under the name Genêt, from 1925 to 1975. Her 1943 series “The Escape of Mrs. Jeffries,” about the flight of an American expat from Nazi-occupied Paris, pioneered techniques in narrative journalism that would distinguish the magazine for decades to come.

Managing Editor and Poet

E. B. White

White, the author of “Stuart Little” and “Charlotte’s Web,” joined the staff in 1926. The husband of Katharine S. White and an office mate of James Thurber, White wrote the caption for one of the first New Yorker cartoons to become a public sensation, and developed the magazine’s Notes and Comment section, the precursor of today’s Comment.

Takes

Writers, editors, and friends of the magazine revisit significant works from the archive. Read the series »

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Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”

His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me.

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Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

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Edwidge Danticat on Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”

The mother in Kincaid’s story is not only trying to tame a shrew; she is offering a template for survival.

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Jennifer Wilson on Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever”

The writer worried that the story was “too niche, too odd,” the crime of flower theft “too minor.” To think, I had loved it for precisely those qualities.

Dive In

Explore timeless collections of influential New Yorker stories.

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New Yorker Essentials

8 stories
A set of toys scattered on the floor.

Personal Histories

19 stories

Fiction

12 stories
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True Crime

7 stories

Funny Stuff

11 stories
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Literary Lives

19 stories
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City Life

10 stories
A new scoring system rewards difficulty, and Biles is taking advantage.

The Sporting Scene

11 stories
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Persons of Interest

12 stories
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Before the Big Screen

8 stories
Ina Garten, photographed by Dina Litovsky for The New Yorker.

Kitchen Chronicles

13 stories

Cartoons

50 drawings
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Critics on the Classics

8 stories

The New Yorker on Netflix

10 stories
The New Yorker Magazine Covers

The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Fully Digitized

For our centenary year, we made every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s history accessible on newyorker.com.

Master Classes

New Yorker writers and editors share insights on making the magazine.

The Art of the New Yorker Cover

Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, presents a seminar on how the magazine’s famous covers are crafted each week, joined by the cover artists Sarula Bao and Adrian Tomine.

Subscriber exclusive

The Art of the Crossword

The crossword constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub join the magazine’s Puzzles & Games editor, Liz Maynes-Aminzade, to teach us how to craft the perfect puzzle.

Subscriber exclusive

The Art of Film Criticism

The New Yorker film critics Richard Brody and Justin Chang talk with the senior editor Leo Carey about their processes for reviewing movies and their paths to becoming critics.

Subscriber exclusive

A game inspired by the magazine’s archive of cartoons, released during the centenary year, challenges you to place six cartoons in chronological order according to when they were originally published.

Don’t miss our crosswords, quizzes, and other brainteasers. Browse all games »

Onward and upward.

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Illustrations by Luci Gutiérrez, Javi Aznarez; animation by Arnau Solà Vila. Anniversary issue covers by Rea Irvin, Diana Ejaita, Anita Kunz, Camila Rosa, Javier Mariscal, Kerry James Marshall. New York issue covers by Christoph Niemann. Culture Industry issue covers by Cindy Sherman, Rea Irvin. Our Far-Flung Correspondents Issue covers by Malika Favre, Rea Irvin.

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