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

Tables for Two: Kisa • 205 Allen St.

Comment: Right Turns

Apparel Dept.: Softer

Legacy Dept.: Editing Is Saving

Dept. of Idols: The Dionysian Life

Sketchpad: New Titles from Hypocrisy Press

Annals of Celebrity: In Search of Lost Time • The strange journey of John Lennon’s stolen Patek Philippe watch.

Shouts & Murmurs: Middle-Age Fantasies

Brave New World Dept.: Small Wonder • How will nanomachines change our lives?

Letter from Ecuador: The Crackdown • Fighting drug gangs, a young President declares war within his own country.

Poems: Moonlight

U.S. Journal: Ghosts on the Water • Glass eels are mysterious creatures—and worth a fortune to those who catch them.

Poems: Suite for Voices

Fiction: The Buggy

Books: The Plague Doctor • Anthony Fauci on what’s ailing America.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Unshattered • How the philosopher Charles Taylor would reënchant the world.

On and Off the Menu: Heat Rising • The era of the line cook.

Pop Music: Offline • Lizzy McAlpine on the power and pitfalls of viral fame.

The Theatre: Labor Pains • Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Welkin” assesses women’s work.

The Current Cinema: The Space Between • “Janet Planet.”

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