NEW YORK — Vogue was named Magazine of the Year at Monday night’s National Magazine Awards dinner, the industry’s biggest event, while The New Yorker and New York tied for the night’s biggest haul, with three prizes apiece.
The New Yorker won for general interest, fiction, and essays and criticism, the latter award going to Roger Angell for his moving look at aging. Angell, 94, beat out Ta-Nehisi Coates’ much-lauded “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic, to win his first National Magazine Award.
New York won for design, magazine section, and columns and commentary for the work of art critic Jerry Saltz.
The awards, commonly referred to as the Ellies, are given out annually by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia Journalism School.
Both National Geographic and Nautilus, a science magazine launched in 2013, took home two awards. Nautilus, which was eligible for the Ellies for the first time this year, won for best website and in the literature, science and politics category.
Some other newcomers made their mark at this year’s gala, which were hosted by ABC World News anchor David Muir and held at the New York Marriott Marquis.
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Feature Writing: The Atavist for “Love and Ruin,” by James Verini, February
Feature Photography: Time for “Crime Without Punishment,” photographs by Jerome Sessini, July 24
Essays and Criticism: The New Yorker for “This Old Man,” by Roger Angell, February 17 and 24
Columns and Commentary: Winner: New York for “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?,” June 16-29, “Taking in Jeff Koons, Creator and Destroyer of Worlds,” June 30-July 13, and “Post-Macho God: Matisse’s Cut-Outs Are World-Historically Gorgeous,” October 8, by Jerry Saltz
Fiction: The New Yorker for “The Emerald Light in the Air,” by Donald Antrim, February 3
