19th century Its first issue was published on September 6, 1896, and contained the first photographs ever printed in the newspaper. In the early decades, it was a section of the
broadsheet 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
fiction,
comic strips, and
gossip columns from the paper, and is generally credited with saving
The New York Times from financial ruin. In 1897, the magazine published a 16-page spread of photographs documenting
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a "costly feat" that resulted in a wildly popular issue and helped boost the magazine to success.
20th century In its early years,
The New York Times Magazine began a tradition of publishing the writing of well-known contributors, from
W. E. B. Du Bois and
Albert Einstein to numerous sitting and future
U.S. presidents. In 1999, the magazine debuted "The Ethicist", an
advice column written by humorist
Randy Cohen that quickly became a highly contentious part of the magazine.
21st century 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
sports magazine published every other month, and
KEY, a real estate magazine published twice a year. In September 2010, as part of a greater effort to reinvigorate the magazine,
Times editor
Bill Keller hired former staff member and then-editor of
Bloomberg Businessweek,
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,
The New Republic 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 2011, 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
Jack Shafer, 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
crossword puzzle 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 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,
Jake Silverstein, who had been editor-in-chief at
Texas Monthly, replaced Lindgren as editor of the Sunday magazine. Beginning in 2024 a condensed, edited version of an in-depth weekly interview is published by the magazine in parallel with the
podcast version of the interview. The podcast titled
The Interview is hosted by
David Marchese and
Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Episodes typically last 40 to 50 minutes. Guests have included politicians, actors, influential experts, media figures and high-profile writers. ==Features==