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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Tables for Two: Cactus Wren • 98 Rivington St.

Comment: Shock and Awe—and After

Designer Brain: The Dogefather Part II

Hardcore Dept.: Past Lives

Truth and Beauty Dept.: Never Tell Me the Odds

Personal History: Care and Feeding • Hugh has a hip operation.

The Sporting Scene: The Descendants • How a spike in second-generation players is changing the N.B.A.

Shouts & Murmurs: New Bond

A Reporter at Large: Collective Punishment • Why is Donald Trump upending America’s commitment to NATO?

Poems: South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day

Takes: John McPhee on His Childhood Appearance in *The New Yorker*

Letter from Philadelphia: Dead Reckoning • A museum of medical history asks what we owe the past.

Fiction: Happy Days

Poems: God

A Critic at Large: Seeds of Doubt • Can agricultural innovation outpace our growing appetites?

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Sex Bomb • Why Generation Z is so chaste.

Pop Music: When to Quit • Haim sets off on a rampage.

Musical Events: Bach’s Colossus • Pygmalion’s visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.

The Current Cinema: Wreckage • “F1,” “Sorry, Baby.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

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