The New Yorker

Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine with the web, mobile, tablet, social media, and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.

Contributors

The Mail: The Mail

Goings On

Photo Booth: How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap • How Jet Democratized the Thirst Trap

Comment: After Milwaukee

Olympics Diary: Paris, 1900

Dept. of Close Calls: All Ears

Dept. of Polyphonics: Tilt

Ba-Dum-Bum Dept.: Immigrant Story

Letter from Las Vegas: Dead Reckoning • At the Sphere, a fan wrestles with what the Grateful Dead have left behind.

Shouts & Murmurs: Writing Prompts

Profiles: A Young Artist • An Italian widow is still discovering the joy of painting at ninety-three.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Old Money • How treasure from an eighteenth-century shipwreck ended up in the hands of a Florida couple.

Poems: Mother

A Reporter at Large: The Brink of War • Will Hezbollah’s border fight with Israel lead to a wider conflict?

Fiction: Abject Naturalism

Poems: Hummingbirds

Books: What Happened to the Yuppie? • Defining a social type was a way of defining an era.

Books: Overcorrection • On the abolition of prisons.

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: Beach Boys • Eating and drinking through Provincetown.

On Television: Bizarre Reality • Julio Torres’s “Fantasmas” finds truth in fantasy.

The Current Cinema: Heavy Weather • “Twisters.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.