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

Goings On

On and off the Avenue: SPF Nostalgia

Comment: Fear Factor

On the Water: Power Trip

Sign Here, Please

How-To Dept.: Neighborhood Watch

Sketchpad: Coins in the Crypto Reserve

Annals of Psychology: Enemy of the Good • The pain of perfectionism.

Takes: Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”

Shouts & Murmurs: A Vaccination Parable

American Chronicles: City of Luck • Four ways New Yorkers have gambled.

Brave New World Dept.: Live Long and Prosper • The quest to extend the human life span and get rich doing it.

Poems: The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (I)

Portfolio: Crime Scene • Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate a spectacle of intimidation.

Fiction: An Unashamed Proposal

Poems: A Table

A Critic at Large: Death to the Shah • Nobody expected the Iranian Revolution. Not even the revolutionaries.

Books: Sense and Sensibility • What James Schuyler’s poetry obscured and revealed.

Books: Briefly Noted

Musical Events: Romantique • A torrent of forgotten French opera on the Bru Zane label.

On Television: Sterling Character • “Washington Black,” on Hulu.

Cartoon Caption Contest

Crossword: The Crossword • A moderately challenging puzzle.