[3] Under Cousins, it was described as "a compendium of reportage, essays and criticism about current events, education, science, travel, the arts and other topics.

They split the magazine into four separate monthlies[6] and renamed the publishing company Saturday Review Press, but the experiment ended in insolvency two years later.

Former editor Cousins purchased it and recombined the units with World, a new magazine that he had started in the meantime.

Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione acquired all properties in 1987 and used the title briefly from 1993 for an online publication at AOL.

In December 2010, business columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer Joseph N. DiStefano reported in his blog that John T. Elduff of JTE Multimedia planned to "revive" both Collier's and Saturday Review as print and online magazines — mainly print, "for Americans 55 to 90".