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 About Town: This Week

Tables for Two: Chalong • 749 Ninth Ave.

Comment: On Trial on the Trail

Blind Justice Dept.: Upstairs, Downstairs

Dept. of Preparation: Box at the Opera

New Faces Dept.: Clubbubble

Pivot Dept.: Lap-Steel Magnolia

Letter from Iten: A Tragic Run

Shouts & Murmurs: My Husband’s Secret Life

Annals of Gastronomy: Special Sauce • The Slutty Vegan burger chain puts the party in plant-based eating.

A Reporter at Large: The Bunker • A covert operation to solve the murder of one of Mexico’s bravest investigative journalists.

Poems: Kansas, 4 A.M.

American Chronicles: Family Values • How a mother’s love for her gay son started a revolution.

Fiction: Evensong

Poems: Break

Books: Zonked • The exhausting history of fatigue.

Books: Oddballs and Odysseys • The road trips, revenge plots, and secret societies of Charles Portis.

Books: Briefly Noted

Pop Music: Amazing Grace • The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun.

Musical Events: De Minimis • Max Richter’s doleful arpeggios, and Cassandra Miller’s piercing lament.

The Theatre: Corn Country • “Shucked” premières on Broadway.

On Television: Hell on Wheels • “Beef,” on Netflix.

The Current Cinema: Tread Softly • “Air” and “Paint.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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