A century ago, Saturday Review was founded on a simple but powerful idea that a flourishing society needs people who read widely, think deeply, question assumptions, and engage seriously with ideas beyond the boundaries of their own experience.
Under the legendary editor Norman Cousins, Saturday Review became one of America’s great magazines of ideas—a meeting place for literature and politics, science and philosophy, art and history, culture and the great questions shaping our common future. At its height, more than 650,000 readers joined that conversation. But as television transformed the media landscape and the economics of general-interest magazines deteriorated, Saturday Review struggled through changes in ownership and successive reinventions before ceasing regular publication in 1982.
Today, that expansive, interconnected way of understanding the world feels more necessary than ever.
We live in an age of extraordinary possibility and profound disruption. Artificial intelligence and other powerful technologies are transforming our world while our information environment increasingly rewards speed, outrage, certainty, and division. We have more information at our fingertips than any generation in history but an even greater need for timeless human wisdom.
That is why Saturday Review is returning.
Launching in 2027, the new Saturday Review will bring together extraordinary thinkers, writers, scientists, artists, creators, and curious readers to explore the ideas shaping our lives and our future and to make connections across boundaries too often kept apart.
We hope you’ll join us.