The long and winding masthead of The New Yorker

One of the (many) quirks of The New Yorker magazine is that it doesn't publish a masthead. The New York Observer has done its best to remedy that by assembling a list of its own, and it is (by today's standards) huge.

We assembled the list through interviews with staffers and contributors notes in back copies and online. Keep in mind that because of the unique, internal logic of the magazine, job titles are a strange thing—someone who may be a staff writer may have only contributed a single piece in the last few years.

Editor David Remnick makes no apologies:

“In order to do what we do, we need a sizable staff. We don’t publish 10 issues a year, or 12 issues a year. We publish 46.

“If The New Yorker is going to be worthy of the name and achieve a level of prose or accuracy or depth, or if it’s going to give the reporters or writers the time they need to achieve what I hope we can achieve, we can’t do it with a minuscule staff.”

You can say that again.