Vanity Fair (U.S. magazine 1913–36) Vanity Fair (U.S. magazine 1913–36) Vanity Fair is an American society magazine published from 1913 to 1936. It was highly successful until the Great Depression led to its becoming unprofitable, and it was merged into "Vogue" in 1936. Condé Nast began his empire by purchasing the men's fashion magazine "Dress" in 1913. He renamed the magazine Dress and Vanity Fair and published four issues in 1913. Nast paid $3,000 for the right to use the title "Vanity Fair" in the United States, granted by the magazine "The Standard and Vanity Fair", "the only periodical printed for the playgoer and player",
When Washington Was in Vogue due to its formulaic plotlines, others saw Williams’s analysis of intra-racial social politics as a fascinating window into the period. "Publishers Weekly" heralded it as “an invaluable addition to period scholarship”, while a laudatory review in "The Crisis" said the novel was “a welcome and consistently entertaining glimpse of a pivotal era”. With Christina Moore’s 2013 “Traditional Rebirth: The Epistolary Genre in When Washington Was in Vogue,” published in "African American Review", the novel (as a published whole) received its first scholarly treatment outside of McKible’s own work. When Washington Was in Vogue When Washington Was in Vogue is a