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: SYKO • 126 Windsor Pl., Brooklyn

Comment: No Direction

Two Wheels Dept.: Jumper

The Musical Life: Wet Leg on the Hoof

Plate Patrol: Vigilante

Sketchpad: Billionaires: Why Do They Want to Go to Space?

Letter from South Carolina: The Swamp • Could corruption have led Alex Murdaugh to murder his wife and son?

Shouts & Murmurs: Life Is Too Short

Annals of Innovation: Build Better • Can 3-D printing help solve the housing crisis?

A Reporter at Large: Trust Issues • A disgruntled wealth manager exposes her clients’ tax secrets.

Poem: The Lovers

Profiles: A Raucous Assault • How the Iranian American artist Tala Madani sees men—and women.

Fiction: Wednesday’s Child

Poem: Baton Bleu

Books: The Royal Me • In “Spare,” Prince Harry must be cruel only to be kind.

Books: Everyone’s a Critic • What are literary studies for?

Books: The Book of Love • Reimagining the Victorian reformers who defended same-sex desire.

Books: Briefly Noted

On Television: Two for the Road • “The Last of Us,” on HBO.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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