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

Goings On

Tables for Two: Sanwits • 149 First Ave.

Comment: Witness

Same Shit Dept.: Extra! Extra!

Dept. of Nomenclature: Identity Politics

The Pictures: Same River Thrice

L.A. Postcard: Plant Man

Our Far-Flung Correspondents: For Ransom • Thousands have been taken by Nigerian bandits. One man was abducted twice.

Shouts & Murmurs: Headlines Stupid Onion Editor Rejected

U.S. Journal: Kaboom! • Fireworks by Grucci’s empire of explosions.

Letter from Beijing: The Future, Made in China • Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

Poems: wasps

American Chronicles: The Mentor • How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.

Fiction: The Promise

Poems: Enjambment

Books: The Quiet Life • A cultural history of silence.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: The Loneliest Number • An uncompromising Belgian novelist’s digital afterlife.

The Art World: The Anomaly • Fairfield Porter’s strange, stranded vision of the world.

On Television: Victim Complex • “Furious,” on Hulu.

The Current Cinema: Director’s Cuts • “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

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