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| Editor | Norman Cousins, 1942–1971, 1973–1977 |
|---|---|
| Categories | U.S. culture; book, music, and movie reviews; education |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 660,000 (peak) |
| Publisher | various |
| Founder | Henry Seidel Canby |
| First issue | 1920 |
| Final issue | June 1986 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0036-4983 |
Saturday Review,[1] previously The Saturday Review of Literature,[2] was an American weekly magazine established in 1924. Norman Cousins was the editor from 1940 to 1971.[3] Under Cousins, it was described as "a compendium of reportage, essays and criticism about current events, education, science, travel, the arts and other topics."[1]
At its peak, Saturday Review was influential as the base of several widely read critics (e.g., Wilder Hobson, music critic Irving Kolodin, and theater critics John Mason Brown and Henry Hewes), and was often known by its initials as SR. It was never very profitable and eventually succumbed to the decline of general-interest magazines after restructuring and trying to reinvent itself more than once during the 1970s and 1980s.
- ^ a b Pace, Eric (December 1, 1990). "Norman Cousins, 75, Dies; Edited The Saturday Review". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ^ Pace, Eric (December 2, 1990). "Norman Cousins Is Dead at 75;Led Saturday Review for Decades – Obituary". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- ^ Lindsay, Greg (February 1, 2003). "A great one remembered... Saturday Review". Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management. Retrieved January 13, 2012.