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

Tables for Two: gertrude’s • 605 Carlton Ave., Brooklyn

Comment: Unpardonable

New Jersey Postcard: Graves and Golf Balls

Adaptation Dept.: Bat-Mitzvah Girl

Brave New World Dept.: When Beds Fly

The Pictures: Worst Version

Dept. of Public Health: You’ve Been Served • One lawyer’s mission to find the lies in what we eat.

Shouts & Murmurs: Climate-Change Myths

Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Greatest Showman • Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.

A Reporter at Large: Dangerous Designs • Gene editing gives us transformative powers. But should we use them?

Poems: End of Summer in the Foothills

Sketchbook: Tips for Transporting Children by Bike in New York

Annals of Nature: Talk to Me • Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?

Poems: The Endlessness

Fiction: Siberian Wood

The Art World: The Great Indoors • How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.

Books: Holy Matrimony • George Eliot’s secular sacraments.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: The Coup • In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.

On Television: Higher Calling • Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

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