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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

Goings On About Town: This Week

Goings On About Town: Podcasts

Tables for Two: Björk Café & Bistro

Comment: Race and Diplomacy

Astral Plane Dept.: Starstruck

Dept. of Fatty Meats: A Side of Borscht Belt

The Boards: Mixed Media

Sketchpad

Comic Strip: Roz and Emily Eat Their Way Through Midwood

Shouts & Murmurs: R.S.V.P. Regrets Generator

Comic Strip: Choosing Horses

Profiles: No Limits • What Kevin McCarthy will do to gain power.

Poem: Soul Making

Poem: Greetings, Friends!

There Goes the Neighborhood

Bagel Shop

Cover Crossword

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Pattern Recognition • Figure out what the answers to each set of trivia questions have in common, then figure out what unites those four connections.

Cryptic Crossword

Puzzles & Games Dept.: My Life in Five Guesses or Less

Sounds About Right • A themed crossword that’s a little absurd.

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Comedy of Errors • It looks as though Shakespeare’s publisher was having an off day: there’s an extra letter in each of these lines from the Bard’s comedies. Weed out all the typos to reveal an apt motto.

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Sight Gags • The drawings on the left page represent the titles of nine comedies; the drawings on the right represent the names of nine actors. Decipher the images, then match each movie with its star.

Portfolio: The Funnies • For readers ready to chuck this issue out the window upon failing to solve a puzzle, here is some comic relief.

Comic Strip: Picturing the Cove Inn

Showcase: Envisioning Extinction • Tragicomic creatures of a terrifying future.

A Critic at Large: Flesh Wound • Norman Mailer went to war and wrote a big novel about it. Did he ever really come back?

Books: Family Album • Robin Coste Lewis travels to the past in her second book.

Books: Briefly Noted

Musical Events: Stick Figures • The divergent conducting careers of Klaus Mäkelä and Xian Zhang.

The Theatre: New Again • “Merrily We Roll Along” and “Some Like It Hot.”

The Current Cinema: The Lower Depths • “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Living.”

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Answer Key