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: Foul Witch • 15 Avenue A

Comment: Sleepwalking

The Pictures: Failure to Launch

Hyphenate Dept.: Confessional

Nature, Improved: Lights Up!

London Postcard: The Underpants Method

Annals of Medicine: Sleeper Cells • To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.

Shouts & Murmurs: Folding The Earth in Half

Onward and Upward With the Arts: Terms of Aggrievement • The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders—and himself.

A Reporter at Large: What Makes a Murder? • How a draconian legal doctrine imprisons people for killings they didn’t commit.

Profiles: Watch This Space • The global ambitions of Invader’s street art.

Poems: DISINHIBITOR

Fiction: The Good Denis

Poems: Here Are Ambiguities

A Critic at Large: Laugh Lines • The funny thing about comedy.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: I Spy • The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

On and Off the Menu: Tokyo Story • Greenpoint’s upscale portal to Japan.

The Theatre: Dispossessed • “Manahatta” and “Life & Times of Michael K.”

The Current Cinema: Gray Areas • “The Zone of Interest” and “Anselm.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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