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

Tables for Two: Bar Miller • 620 E. 6th St.

Comment: Off the Ballot

Paris Postcard: Designer Data

Raised Eyebrows Dept.: Outrageous

l.a. Postcard: Live Long, Prosper

Sketchpad: Tips for Filling the Dead Week Between Christmas and New Year’s

Letter from Gaza: Unsafe Passage • A Palestinian poet’s perilous journey out of his homeland.

Annals of Etiquette: Tipping Points • The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.

Shouts & Murmurs: Nature, Wow

Profiles: The Ventriloquist • How Hollywood’s most in-demand script doctor found his own voice.

The Control of Nature: The Cats of L.A. • The “No Kill” movement helps keep cats outdoors. The consequences belie the name.

Poems: Leaving

Fiction: Crown Heights North

Poems: Federico García Lorca, Coney Island, 1929

Books: Open Season • The rising popularity of polyamory.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Winter Sun • How Camille Pissarro went from mediocrity to magnificence.

A Critic at Large: Genghis the Good • Nomadic warriors like the Mongol hordes, scholars argue, built our world.

The Theatre: Divided House • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” comes to Broadway.

The Current Cinema: Over the Limit • “Ferrari” and “The Crime Is Mine.”

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