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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Goings On

Tables for Two: Bong • 724 Sterling Pl., Brooklyn

Comment: All the President’s Enemies

Local’s Dept.: Upside Down

Career Arcs: Mike Nichols’s Ghost

Backstage Dept.: From the Top

Runway Dept.: Civil Strutting

Life and Letters: On the Impersonal Essay • Thinking in six parts.

Shouts & Murmurs: R.F.K., Jr.: A Day in the Life

Brave New World Dept.: Prompt Diagnosis • A.I. is already helping physicians and patients. But there are side effects.

Letter from California: Fire Season • FIRE SEASON Returning to a devastated community.

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Cinema Paradiso • How Bologna became a guiding light of the film-restoration world.

Poems: What I Might Sing

Fiction: Unreasonable

Poems: The Race

Poems: Black Walnuts

Takes: Rivka Galchen on Raymond Carver’s “Elephant”

A Critic at Large: Don’t Say It Like That • A legendary usage guide is turning a hundred.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: No Way Out • In Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket,” all the ends are loose.

Books: After the Flood • Ian McEwan casts the climate crisis as a story of adultery.

Books: You People • Antisemitism and its tangled meanings.

The Theatre: Up for Debate • Yasmina Reza’s “Art” and Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck.”

On Television: Hard News • “The Lowdown,” on FX.

The Current Cinema: A World Apart • “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.