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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Photo Booth: The Limo Driver’s View

Comment: Inaugurations

L.A. Postcard: At Drawdown

Dept. of Totems: Another Brick in the Wall

The Literary Life: Deaccessioning

Letter from Israel: The Poison Machine • The talk-show host Yinon Magal’s hard-line tactics.

Shouts & Murmurs: Welcome to Our First/Final Book Club!

Personal History: Tabula Rasa • Volume Five.

Profiles: Make Him Laugh •  How Lorne Michaels’s sensibility governs “Saturday Night Live.”

Poems: Sisters

A Reporter at Large: On a Mission from God • Inside the movement to redirect billions of taxpayer dollars to private religious schools.

Fiction: Ming

Poems: Prayer

A Critic at Large: Zora Neale Hurston’s Chosen People • What a long-unpublished novel reveals about her magnificent obsession.

BRIEFLY NOTED

Books: Fear and Loathing • Are all our arguments really over who’s harmed?

On Television: Odd Jobs • “Severance,” on Apple TV+.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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