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The New Yorker

August 24-31, 2026
Magazine

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

Goings On: Fall Preview

Comment: Election Games

Giveaway Dept.: Pin-Striped Promo

Members Only Dept.: Rockaway Revival

Work-Around Dept.: High Art

Up in the Air: Where There’s Smoke

Dispatches: Big Dumb Gluttonous Fun • On the road to celebrate the ups and downs of America’s Semiquincentennial.

The Control of Nature: Taking the Heat • As summers grow deadlier, Europe’s cities are racing to reinvent themselves.

Shouts & Murmurs: Admissions Tour: Being a Person

A Reporter at Large: The Scientist’s Children • A researcher studied a disease in the South Pacific. But his biggest experiment was on the wards he took home.

Poems: Saint Paul

Sketchbook: A Crossword Odyssey

Profiles: Fighting Words • Mahmoud Khalil was detained for protesting Israel. Now he’s on the verge of being deported.

Fiction: Hidden Life

Poems: Lament

Books: Vanishing Act • Rachel Cusk’s protest against personhood.

Books: Briefly Noted

Books: Making the Sex Scandal • A nineteenth-century panic is a parable about our zeal for public shaming.

On and Off the Menu: Eyes Up Here • Can Hooters revive itself?

The Current Cinema: Fine Tooning • “Coyote vs. Acme.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

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

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English