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 • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.

Tables for Two: Clover Hill • 20 Columbia Pl., Brooklyn

Comment: Not Going Back

The Sporting Scene: Fighting Words

The Pictures: Come a Long Way

Dept. of Diminishment: Bits and Bobs

Mom Group: Baby Blues

Profiles: Out There • In midlife, Gillian Anderson is proving that she’s not so buttoned-up.

Shouts & Murmurs: My New Thing

Personal History: Playing the Numbers • My mother, the gambler.

The Political Scene: Unconventional • No fear and loathing in Milwaukee, just confidence.

Annals of Crime: Blood Relatives • Did the U.K.’s most infamous family massacre end in a miscarriage of justice?

Poems: This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Wireless Warning System

Fiction: Attila

Poems: Sighting

A Critic at Large: The Fin and the Fury • Beware of sharkless waters.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Born Again • The past and future of Christian fundamentalism.

Musical Events: Forbidden Desires • Debussy, Strauss, and a new opera about John Singer Sargent, in Des Moines.

The Theatre: State of Play • Politics and “the real” at the Festival d’Avignon.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.