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: Goings On

Comment: Bluntly Speaking

Space Signage: Meatball vs. Worm

Fetish Dept.: Axes Up Close

Now You See It: Invisible Monuments

London Postcard: Saturation Job

Personal History: The Fall • Tumbling out of a bedroom window.

Reflections: The Violence of the Rams • A lamb enters the fold.

Family Life: Point Blank • How do you tell the story of a murder you don’t remember?

Profiles: Personal Statement • Joyce Carol Oates’s relentless search for a self.

Poems: Memory and Geography

Life and Letters: Ghost, Writer • When a friend died, she left behind a novel that needed finishing.

Sketchbook: Mary’s Me Day

Fiction: Beauty Contest

Poems: I Am a Prayer

Books: Are You Entertained? • Barbra Streisand writes the mother of all memoirs.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Now and Then • What if the thing we’re nostalgic for is nostalgia itself?

Books: Birth Pangs • The environmental crisis as a reason not to have kids.

A Critic at Large: Home Bodies • Betye Saar reassembles the lives of Black women.

On and Off the Menu: Upper Crust • How pizza became New Haven’s calling card.

Pop Music: Big Love • Chris Stapleton’s case for affairs of the heart.

The Theatre: Gotta Have Faith • “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” “Scene Partners,” and “Waiting for Godot.”

The Current Cinema: Conduct Unbecoming • “Maestro.”

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Puzzles & Games Dept.: Story Of My Life • A themed crossword.