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

Goings On About Town: This Week

Tables for Two: Daily Pleasures in Midtown

Comment: What She Said

Disaster Readiness Dept.: Shake It Off

Dept. of Fandom: “Stan” Stan

Life Lessons: Stunted Growth

Sketchpad: Mask

Brave New World Dept.: In the Bubble • Yam Karkai’s illustrations made her an N.F.T. sensation. Now what?

Shouts & Murmurs: Last Words

Life and Letters: Counter-Espionage • How Mick Herron upended spy fiction.

A Reporter at Large: Endgame • How the visionary hospice movement became a for-profit hustle.

Poem: The Frantic Adding Machine

Profiles: Nothing Else Matters • The singular metal genius of Metallica.

Poem: Law of the Body

Fiction: My Wonderful Description of Flowers

Books: Talking Movies • What Hollywood’s ultimate oral history reveals.

Books: Self-Sabotage • Kathy Acker’s long struggle to escape identity.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Doctor Privilege • “The Patient Gloria” examines the male psychotherapist’s gaze.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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