Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities: (1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark: ... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or t

Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities: (1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark: ... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or their regret that he had not “finished the job;” a broadcast from Cairo ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-je... But Clyde is not the urban sharpster of “The Public Enemy;” he is the hick as bank robber ... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-clyde https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-cly... (2) Including commas for nonrestrictive apposition, even when there is no possibility of a restrictive interpretation: When he died, in 2004, his books and exhibitions were too numerous to count, and his magazine work had been published all over the world in the best publications. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin-part-i https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin... The copyeditors seem to think that writing “When he died in 2004” would imply that he had died not only in 2004 but also in another year. In general, the New Yorker uses a lot more commas than most other publications. (3) Adopting American spelling overall but using the double-ell “travelling,” “unravelling,” etc., which are more common in British spelling.