A. J. Liebling

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

The author of ‘The Stranger’ toured the Americas in the years following World War II. He found prosperity and absurdity in plenty.

Born after the Civil War, he turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.

Depression-era Americans viewed urban life in America through the lens of Weegee’s camera.