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: The Otter • 58 Thompson St.

Comment: Open Season

Here To There Dept.: Traffic Report

Collections Dept: The Good Stuff

On Belay: High Art

Blue Nile Dept. At the Met

Annals of Disaster: Line of Fire • The fight to contain an inferno in Los Angeles.

Shouts & Murmurs: Production Notes: “Melania”

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Private Eye • How Celia Paul paints presence.

Letter from Damascus: The Witness •  An activist fled Syria to reveal Assad’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back.

Poems: The Bay

Popular Chronicles: Capybara, Mon Cœur • A giant crush on a giant rodent.

Fiction: A Visit from the Chief

Poems: Speaker

A Critic at Large: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door • It’s never too early to imagine the end of the world.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Some Personal News • The rise and rise of the entrepreneurial work ethic.

Musical Events: Banging the Drum • Monday Evening Concerts has celebrated new music for eight decades.

On Television: Armchair Quarterback • Tom Brady’s second act, as a football commentator.

The Theatre: Language Lessons • Sanaz Toossi’s “English” arrives on Broadway.

Cartoon Caption Contest

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