[1] For 15 years, the magazine featured writers of the New Journalism movement, including Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Joe Eszterhas.[1].
Jones left the same night that an editor at New West magazine read him an article to be published by Marshall Kilduff detailing allegations of abuse by former Temple members.
[4][5] The magazine exposed defects in Firestone tires and issues with the sleeping pill Halcion.
[3] A California May 1983 article "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay, profiled US Navy pilots training at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego and served as the inspiration for the 1986 movie Top Gun.
[7] By 1991, circulation had dropped to 250,000 and it was shut down along with sister publication SF.