The New Yorker

The New Yorker is a weekly magazine with a mix of reporting of politics and culture, humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism.

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This week’s cover, “Brooklyn or Bust,” by Bruce McCall.

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The photographer Al Thompson captures the residue of gentrification and change in a once-vibrant and diverse suburban town. His sparse, black-and-white palette conveys a tenderness and affection for his subjects.

Read the full story, and see more photos from this collection, here. 

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After Kathryn Schulz's father died, she inherited some of his books: Dickens and Dostoyevsky, biology and natural history, literary fiction and light verse and tragedy. She writes an ode to her father’s love of books, and his haphazard-looking organizational system for storing them. 

Read the full story, “My Father’s Stack of Books,” here. 

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This week’s cover, “Crazy Time,” by Mark Ulriksen. 

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The former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, who was known for his antiwar and ecological activism, died last Friday. Since 1955, Merwin published over two hundred works of poetry and prose in our magazine, that speak to the breadth and singularity of his monumental career.

Read more of W. S. Merwin’s work here. 

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Hulu's show "Shrill" presents a likable début with the clever casting of Aidy Bryant, a warm, welcoming comedian from "Saturday Night Live." 

Read Emily Nussbaum’s full review of the show here. 

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This week’s cover, "Spring to Mind," by Malika Favre. 

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The chef Niki Nakayama, and her wife and collaborator, Carole Iida, are two of a small number of female chefs in a high-end Japanese culinary landscape that is virtually dominated by men. Nakayama’s restaurant has become a highly coveted reservation in L.A, with tables booked out three months in advance.

Read the full story on how this Japanese-American chef launched the most prominent kaiseki restaurant in the U.S. 

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Read the full story, “Places My Cat Sleeps Other Than His Cat Bed,” here. 

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This week’s cover, “The Real Emergency,” by Barry Blitt.

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Amid dire warnings of mass extinctions and ecological catastrophe, the migratory flights of monarch butterflies are vanishing. Habitat loss, insecticides, and increasing temperatures are all threatening monarch butterfly populations. Are the butterflies resilient enough to rebound from the precipitous decline they have experienced?

Read the full story here. 

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A cartoon by Karl Stevens. Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram for more. #TNYcartoons

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Bryan Washington frequented Korean diners across Houston, Texas, where he fell in love with soondubu jjigae, a Korean stew of soft tofu served in a spicy anchovy broth, and sometimes embellished with meat or seafood. The stew is flavored with gochujang, a bright-red fermented chile paste, tangy and scalding and sweet all at once.

Read the full story, and find a recipe for the Korean silken-tofu stew, here. 

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As a twenty-two-year-old art student, Janice Guy stored a series of experimental self-portraits in a friend's basement. Now, more than forty years later, they have found a second life. 

Read the full story on a gallerist’s feminist self-portraits here. 

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A cartoon by Harry Bliss. Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram for more. #TNYcartoons

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Between the years 1897 and 1922, the photographer Hugh Mangum set up makeshift studios across North Carolina and Virginia, where he invited black and white portrait subjects to share space together. In an era of racial terror and Jim Crow segregation, Mangum's work acts as a record of shared experience in the face of racist American customs and laws. 

Read the full story, and view more of these dynamic portraits, here. 

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In today's daily cartoon, by Shannon Wheeler, love isn't blind anymore. Follow @newyorkercartoons on Instagram for more #TNYcartoons.