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

Goings On About Town: Television

Tables for Two: Balkan StrEAT • 353 Sixth Ave.

Comment: Emergency Measures

The Pictures: Decorative

Time Travel Dept.: Witness Buildings

At the Museums: Loot Reboot

Sketchpad: Baseball Has New Rules for 2023

Brave New World Dept.: Fertile Ground • The biotech startups that want to revolutionize human reproduction.

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN IN MANHATTAN

Annals of Gastronomy: The Crunch Bunch • How Taco Bell fired the first shot in the stunt-food wars.

A Reporter at Large: Security Breach • Criminals presumed that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Big mistake.

Poems: All Souls

Sketchbook: Bon Voyage

Onward and Upward with Technology: The Language Game • Luis von Ahn turned Duolingo into the world’s most popular education app. How much can it teach us?

Fiction: The Stuntman

Poems: Rowan Tree

Books: The Great Interruption • What was the English Revolution about, anyway?

Books: Inspiration, Inc. • How “creativity” was created.

Books: High Achievers • How taking drugs changed the science of the self.

Books: Walk the Line • In Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” the Boston busing protests are murder.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Guiding Light • “Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and “White Girl in Danger.”

The Current Cinema: Parent Traps • “Beau Is Afraid” and “Everything Went Fine.”

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Access Denied • A themed crossword.