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 About Town: This Week • As ever, it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements.
Tables for Two: Place des Fêtes • 212 Greene Ave., Brooklyn
Comment: The Post-Roe Era
Curation Dept.: Crazy Town
In Miniature: Shell Game
Annals of Nature: Swamped • Why America’s wetlands matter.
Shouts & Murmurs: Missed Connections, 1/7/21
Onward and Upward with the Arts: Noise Makers • The analog delights of Foley sound effects.
Letter from Budapest: The Illiberal Order • Does Hungary offer a glimpse of our authoritarian future?
Poem: Fracture Story
Profiles: Keeping Faith • The gospel according to Mavis Staples.
Sketchbook: Delegates
Fiction: To Sunland
Poem: The Bread, the Butter, the Orange Marmalade
The Current Cinema: He That Plays the King • “Elvis.”
Books: Briefly Noted
Books: Modern Family • Time was, you couldn’t give it away. How did modern art blow up?
Musical Events: Anything Goes • The Ojai Music Festival, more freewheeling than ever.
The Theatre: Lighting the Way • Will Arbery’s “Corsicana” and Brian Watkins’s “Epiphany.”
CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST
Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Crossword • A beginner-friendly puzzle.