The bigger, badder, sexier National Magazine Awards were held at Lincoln Center on Tuesday evening, and there were plenty to go around. Time, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire and the Virginia Quarterly Review each received a pair of Ellies. The Atlantic Monthly, however, was shut out despite being nominated for 8 awards — more than any other magazine.

Time won for general excellence for a magazine with a circulation of over 2,000,000. It was Time's first in that category since 1985. The Virginia Quarterly Review — nominated for five Ellies — won two including general excellence, under 100,000 circulation. Dave Eggers' The Believer and McSweeney's lost in general excellence and fiction writing, respectively.

Men's Health and editor David Zinczenko, too, were shut out, though fellow Rodale title Backpacker won for best magazine section, which prompted a candid, uproarious acceptance speech by its editor Jon Dorn. Dorn said that after observing Zinczenko in the company's Emmaus, Pennsylvania gym, Zinczenko, in fact, has the "best ass" at Rodale.

More on Dorn's comments and FishbowlNY's generally excellent thoughts and notes on the evening TK.

The full list of 2006 winners [in bold]:

2006 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS

GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Under 100,000 circulation
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Aperture
The Believer
Legal Affairs
ReadyMade

100,000 to 250,000 circulation
Harper's
Chicago
Foreign Policy
Harvard Business Review
Town & Country Travel

250,000 to 500,000 circulation
New York
The Atlantic Monthly
Backpacker
Technology Review
Texas Monthly

500,000 to 1,000,000 circulation
Esquire
Everyday Food
House & Garden
Marie Claire
Runner's World
Wired

1,000,000 to 2,000,000 circulation
ESPN The Magazine
Fortune
Martha Stewart Living
The New Yorker
Vogue

Over 2,000,000 circulation
Time
Glamour
National Geographic
O, The Oprah Magazine
Prevention

PERSONAL SERVICE
Self
Field & Stream
Men's Health
National Geographic
O, The Oprah Magazine

LEISURE INTERESTS
Golf
Bicycling
Condé Nast Traveler
GQ
Men's Health

REPORTING
Rolling Stone
The Atlantic Monthly [In a Ruined Country]
The Atlantic Monthly [The Wrath of Khan]
Harper's
The New Yorker

PUBLIC INTEREST
The New Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly
Legal Affairs
Mother Jones
Texas Monthly

FEATURE WRITING
The American Scholar
The Atlantic Monthly
GQ
Outside
The Oxford American

PROFILE WRITING
Esquire
The Atlantic Monthly
GQ
Los Angeles
The New Yorker
Rolling Stone

ESSAYS
Vanity Fair
Harper's [Don't Watch the News]
Harper's [The Christian Paradox]
The Virginia Quarterly Review [The Wagon]
The Virginia Quarterly Review [Dead Enough?]

COLUMNS and COMMENTARY
The New Yorker
Field & Stream
Inc.
Scientific American
Vanity Fair

REVIEWS and CRITICISM
Harper's
The Atlantic Monthly
GQ
New York
The Virginia Quarterly Review

MAGAZINE SECTION
Backpacker
Condé Nast Traveler
Entertainment Weekly
Men's Health
New York

SINGLE-TOPIC ISSUE
Time
National Geographic
The Oxford American
Saveur
Scientific American

DESIGN
New York
Everyday Food
GQ
Kids
Martha Stewart Living
Nylon

PHOTOGRAPHY
W
Departures
Gourmet
New York Magazine
Texas Monthly
Time

PHOTO PORTFOLIO/PHOTO ESSAY
Rolling Stone
Aperture
Field & Stream
National Geographic
Vanity Fair
W

FICTION
Virginia Quarterly Review [Peacekeeper, by Alan Heathcock, Fall; Smother, by Joyce Carol Oates, Fall; In a Grove, by R.T. Smith, Fall]
The Atlantic Monthly
McSweeney's
The Virginia Quarterly Review [So Help Me God, by Joyce Carol Oates, Winter; The Guggenheim Lovers, by Isabel Allende, Summer; The Ghosts We Love, by Brock Clarke]
Zoetrope

GENERAL EXCELLENCE ONLINE
National Geographic Online
Beliefnet.com
CNET.com
men.style.com
Newsweek.com