American men's magazine founded in 1933 — which published major literary nonfiction including Tom Wolfe's Noyce essay, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, and others — and which served as a primary venue for New Journalism's most important work.
Served as the primary publication platform for New Journalism — publishing the most important long-form literary nonfiction of the 1960s–80s — making it as important to literary nonfiction as The New Yorker was to a different register of the same form.
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