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 About Town: This Week

Tables for Two: Zara Forest Grill • 1745 Forest Ave., Staten Island

Comment: Child’s Work

Night Life Dept.: Ein Berliner

Public Works Dept.: Art Vigilante

On Tour: Gone Fishing

Sketchpad: The Food-on-Clothes Fad • The “It” Coat … Is … a Pasta Puffer? The statement jacket designed by Rachel Antonoff and patterned with farfalle has become a social-media and street-style sensation. —The Times.

Personal History: What Am I Without You? • Two lives merged by immigration and illness.

Shouts & Murmurs: A Network Executive Writes a Sitcom

Life and Letters: The Interview Artist • James Grissom met Tennessee Williams—and suddenly knew everybody.

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Comic Effect • How the Marvel Cinematic Universe swallowed Hollywood.

Poems: The Three Graces

Letter from North Carolina: Minority Rules • The once fringe legal theory that became a threat to democracy.

Fiction: Thursday

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Books: Border Control • The economics of immigration vs. the politics of immigration.

Books: Back from the Dead • The afterlife of Susan Taubes.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Uncanny Valley • Mannequins and mystification in Dorothy Tse’s dreamlike Hong Kong.

The Current Cinema: Playtime • “Past Lives” and “Squaring the Circle.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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