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.

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The Food Scene: Lundy’s • 44 Beard St., Brooklyn

Comment: Onward and Upward

Reference Dept.: Senior Superlatives

Dept. of Sensitivity: The Intactivists

Brave New World: Team Robot

American Chronicles: War of Words • Editors, writers, and the making of a magazine.

Shouts & Murmurs: A Troubleshooting Guide to Your Moving Wall of Spikes

The Control of Nature: Helicopter Parents • The daring attempts to teach an endangered ibis species to migrate.

Takes: Rachel Aviv on Janet Malcolm’s “Trouble in the Archives”

Profiles: Trouble in Paradise •  Mike White’s mischievous morality plays.

Takes: Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

Personal History: A Visit to Madam Bedi • I was estranged from my own mother, so a friend tried to lend me his.

Poems: Black Dictionary

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Stepping Out • High-school band contests turn marching into a sport—and an art.

A Reporter at Large: Sisterhood • A remarkable alliance between an order of Catholic nuns and the women on Texas’s death row.

Takes: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Poems: Nothing New

Takes: Roz Chast on George Booth’s Cartoons

Comic Strip: Rea Irvin: An Appreciation

Fiction: Chuka

Poems: Temple of Poseidon, Sounion

A Critic at Large: Subject and Object • What happened when Lillian Ross profiled Ernest Hemingway.

Books: Tangled Web • An arachnophobe pays homage to the spider.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Art World: Royal Flush • The fall of red.

LIVE FROM NEW YORK • A new docuseries commemorates fifty years of “Saturday Night Live.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Playing the Percentages • A themed centenary crossword.