The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semimonthly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. Esquire has called it "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language." As of 2007, the publication had a circulation of approximately 140,000. The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with publisher A. Whitney Ellsworth, and with the backing of Barbara's husband Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Viking Books. It was founded during the New York publishing strike of 1963. The first idea was to make Norman Podhoretz editor, but he chose to stay at Commentary Magazine. The group then turned to Silvers, who had been an editor at Vanity Fair and Harper's. The Review's first issues included articles by such writers as W. H. Auden, Elizabeth... full article at wikipedia