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: Winter Preview

Comment: Civil Wrongs

Bling Dept.: The Mobster on the Ceiling

The Boards: There She Is

The Pictures: Day in the Life

Missing Mollusks Dept.: Natural Recruit

Personal History: Transitions • A father reckons with his child’s transformation, and with his own.

Takes: Ed Caesar on Nick Paumgarten’s “Up and Then Down”

Shouts & Murmurs: The Doctor’s Plan

Annals of Artificial Intelligence: Open Mind • The case that A.I. is thinking.

A Reporter at Large: Cage Match • How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.

Poems: The World Was All Before Them

Profiles: Heart to Heart • Joachim Trier’s approach to directing is as empathic as his films.

Poems: On Being Watched from Above

Fiction: Mother of Men

Books: The Player King • Anthony Hopkins looks back.

Books: Last Harvest •  Georgi Gospodinov’s new novel probes what dies when your father does.

Books: Briefly Noted

On and Off the Menu: Tableau Vivant • The surprising endurance of Martha Stewart’s “Entertaining.”

Musical Events: Youthful Convictions • At ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley still sound vital.

The Theatre: Reality Show • “Little Bear Ridge Road” comes to Broadway.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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