Nothing Happened and Then It Did: Jake Silverstein’s New New York Times Magazine

By: Matthew Kassel | New York Observer

Since he took over as editor of The New York Times Magazine about 10 months ago, Jake Silverstein has been eliminating a column here, bringing on a staff writer there. Mostly, though, the magazine has been quietly humming along, using up existing stories in the pipeline and, when those ran out, commissioning new ones, maintaining the existing sections and columns imagined by former editors. Mr. Silverstein’s sensibility no doubt began to permeate the pages, but it was subtle. Change came slowly, then all at once.

This weekend, devoted readers will find tucked into their newspapers the first issue of the new New York Times Magazine, a redesigned, 220-page behemoth.