Serial Comma Watch

The use of the serial comma is, at least in my book, one of the more interesting choices copyeditors make. Its use has come to connote dour correctness, while its omission is a mark of informal utilitarianism. (For those who don’t know, the serial comma comes before the “and” in a list, i.e. peaches, doctors, and duck soup.) Strunk & White favor it, while the AP stylebook frowns. Thus I couldn’t resist compiling a list: Who uses it and who doesn’t? What follows is a (growing, I hope) roster of magazines:

Yes:

1. The New Yorker
2. The New York Review of Books
3. Harper’s
4. The New York Observer (Yes, it’s newsprint, but it’s really a magazine)
5. New York
6. The Atlantic Monthly
7. The Village Voice
8. Esquire
9. Artforum
10. Black Book

No:

1. The New York Times Magazine
2. The Economist
3. Art in America
4. Seed
5. Stopsmiling
6. Bomb
7. Topic
8. Time Out New York
9. Rolling Stone
10. Money Magazine

The real question, of course: What do these magazines have in common?