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.

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Goings On

The Food Scene: Three Exceptional Panettones

Comment: Ring Cycles

In These United States: Helpline

Gift List Dept.: Lumps of Coal, Cont’d

Doppelgänger Dept.: Real Waxworks

Up in the Sky: Stranger Things

Profiles: Working Man • The Hollywood slog that led Adam Scott to “Severance.”

Shouts & Murmurs: To the Detective Investigating My Murder

Annals of Inquiry: Talk Sense • How much sway does our language have over our thinking?

A Reporter at Large: You Won’t Get Free of It • Alice Munro’s partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.

Poems: Prelude in Grey Major

Fiction: The Leper

Poems: Bass Lake

Books: The Spotify Syndrome • What is the world’s largest music-streaming platform really costing us?

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: What Good Is Morality? • Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us.

Dancing: Nature Studies •  Kyle Abraham’s “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”

On Television: International Affairs • “Black Doves,” on Netflix.

The Theatre: Momma Mia •  Audra McDonald triumphs in “Gypsy” on Broadway.

The Current Cinema: Art of Stone • “The Brutalist.”

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Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Holiday Crossword • 2024 in language.