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'''''The New Yorker''''' is an American left leaning weekly magazine featuring [[journalism]], commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, [[satire]], cartoons, and poetry. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the [[Culture of New York City|cultural life of New York City]], ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Temple|first1=Emily|title=20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the Last 93 Years|date=February 21, 2018|url=https://lithub.com/20-iconic-new-yorker-covers/|publisher=Literary Hub|access-date=February 23, 2018}}</ref> its commentaries on [[popular culture]] and eccentric [[Americana]], its attention to modern [[fiction]] by the inclusion of [[Short story|short stories]] and literary [[review]]s, its rigorous [[Fact-checking|fact checking]] and [[copy editing]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Norris |first1=Mary |author-link1=Mary Norris (copy editor) |title=How I proofread my way to Philip Roth's heart |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/10/between-you-and-me-confessions-of-a-comma-queen-mary-norris-extract |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=July 12, 2018 |language=en |date=May 10, 2015 |quote=It has been more than 20 years since I became a page OK'er—a position that exists only at the ''New Yorker'', where you query-proofread pieces and manage them, with the editor, the author, a fact-checker, and a second proofreader, until they go to press.}}</ref><ref name="TED Talk">{{cite web|title=Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of the New Yorker's comma queen|url=http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_norris_the_nit_picking_glory_of_the_new_yorker_s_comma_queen|publisher=[[TED (conference)|TED]]|access-date=July 12, 2018|quote=Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team—every little movement gets picked over by the critics [...] [[E. B. White]] once wrote of commas in The New Yorker: 'They fall with the precision of knives outlining a body.'}}</ref> its [[journalism]] on politics and [[social issues]], and its single-panel [[cartoon]]s sprinkled throughout each issue.
 
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