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: Hot-Pot Marathon

Comment: Cold War 2.0

Recuperation Dept.: Nice Things

The Pictures: Entrepreneur

Wellness Dept.: Safeguarding

Sketchpad: Street-Cleaning Solutions

Brave New World Dept.: Talking to Ourselves • Can artificial minds heal real ones?

Shouts & Murmurs: Twitter Check Marks, Updated

The Control of Nature: Elemental Need • Phosphorus helped save our way of life—and now threatens to end it.

Annals of Higher Education: The End of the English Major • Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

Poems: A Graveyard in New England

A Reporter at Large: The Price of Belief • The unravelling of Wirecard, the biggest fraud in German history.

Fiction: Snowy Day

Poems: Put My House

Pop Music: Shocking the Consciousness • The New Age sounds of Laraaji.

Books: Marvellous Things • The worlds of Italo Calvino.

Books: Writer’s Bloc • What a Serbian British novelist makes of her homelands.

Books: Briefly Noted

On Television: The After-Party • The return of “Party Down,” on Starz.

The Current Cinema: Making Tracks • “Cocaine Bear” and “The Quiet Girl.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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