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

Tables for Two: Le Veau d’Or • 129 E. 60th St.

Comment: The Pop-Culture Vote

Georgia Postcard: Mr. F.’s Hotel

The Wayward Press: Flash Points

First-Timer Dept.: Making the Doughnuts • Will Packer

Sketchpad: Your Lingering Fear of Germs • Colin Tom

Personal History: The Hem of His Garment • An audience with the Pope.

Letter from Austria: Spreading the Wealth • Why a young heiress asked fifty strangers to redistribute her fortune.

Shouts & Murmurs: Every Obituary’s First Paragraph

Profiles: Be Her Guest • The plush ambience of Ina Garten’s good fortune.

Poems: A Sunset

Brave New World Dept.: Drug of Choice • A.I. is transforming the way medicines are made.

Poems: The Dahlias

Fiction: Greensleeves

Pop Music: Wild Thing • MJ Lenderman resists the smoothing, neutering effects of technology.

Books: Luck of the Draw • Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.

Books: Desperately Seeking • The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Duty Dancing • How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.

On Television: Affinity Comedy • The state of the Netflix standup special.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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