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The New Yorker

Apr 19 2021
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

The Mail

Goings On About Town: This Week • In Japan, the thousand-year-old tradition known as hanami (“flower watching”) celebrates the annual arrival—and the fleeting beauty—of cherry blossoms. This year, the cherry trees in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (pictured), in Queens, were in full bloom by mid-April. Packing a picnic to enjoy under the trees is a hanami ritual—Japanese chefs wrap red-bean-paste-filled cakes in pickled cherry blossoms and dye rice balls and dumplings pink for the occasion. Whether you focus on the flowers or on the food is up to you.

TABLES FOR TWO

Comment: Gaetz and His Party

Year Off: Saturday With Greta

Dept. of Anthems: Northern Exposure

Palm Springs Postcard: High Homage

Calling the Shots: The Voice

Personal History: Tabula Rasa • Volume Two.

Shouts & Murmurs: The First Chapter of My Proposed Novel

Annals of Gastronomy: French Twist • An upstart fast food takes over in the home of haute cuisine.

Sketchbook: What Your Mask Says About You

A Reporter at Large: The Cluster • Residents of a college town kept killing themselves. A parent decided that a student was playing a sinister role.

Poem: Farolitos

Letter from Maine: Final Say • How a self-taught linguist came to own an indigenous language.

Artifacts: Band of Brothers

Fiction: Alvin

Books: The Accursed • Damon Galgut’s masterly novel “The Promise” depicts a family, and a nation, divided.

Books: The Politics of Feeling • A quarter century of emotional intelligence.

Books: Living History • In Thomas Grattan’s novel, Germany comes together and a teen-ager comes out.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Light of Day • Audiences return to the theatre for an adaptation of Saramago’s “Blindness.”

Musical Events: The Noise of Time • The MaerzMusik festival, in Berlin, goes online.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST • Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit a caption, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. Caption submissions for this week’s cartoon, by Edward Koren, must be received by Sunday, April 18th. The finalists in the April 5th contest appear below. We will announce the winner, and the finalists in this week’s contest, in the May 10th issue. Anyone age thirteen or older can enter or vote. To do so, and to read the complete rules, visit contest.newyorker.com.

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


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 82 Publisher: Conde Nast US Edition: Apr 19 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: April 12, 2021

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

News & Politics

Languages

English

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 • In Japan, the thousand-year-old tradition known as hanami (“flower watching”) celebrates the annual arrival—and the fleeting beauty—of cherry blossoms. This year, the cherry trees in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (pictured), in Queens, were in full bloom by mid-April. Packing a picnic to enjoy under the trees is a hanami ritual—Japanese chefs wrap red-bean-paste-filled cakes in pickled cherry blossoms and dye rice balls and dumplings pink for the occasion. Whether you focus on the flowers or on the food is up to you.

TABLES FOR TWO

Comment: Gaetz and His Party

Year Off: Saturday With Greta

Dept. of Anthems: Northern Exposure

Palm Springs Postcard: High Homage

Calling the Shots: The Voice

Personal History: Tabula Rasa • Volume Two.

Shouts & Murmurs: The First Chapter of My Proposed Novel

Annals of Gastronomy: French Twist • An upstart fast food takes over in the home of haute cuisine.

Sketchbook: What Your Mask Says About You

A Reporter at Large: The Cluster • Residents of a college town kept killing themselves. A parent decided that a student was playing a sinister role.

Poem: Farolitos

Letter from Maine: Final Say • How a self-taught linguist came to own an indigenous language.

Artifacts: Band of Brothers

Fiction: Alvin

Books: The Accursed • Damon Galgut’s masterly novel “The Promise” depicts a family, and a nation, divided.

Books: The Politics of Feeling • A quarter century of emotional intelligence.

Books: Living History • In Thomas Grattan’s novel, Germany comes together and a teen-ager comes out.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Theatre: Light of Day • Audiences return to the theatre for an adaptation of Saramago’s “Blindness.”

Musical Events: The Noise of Time • The MaerzMusik festival, in Berlin, goes online.

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST • Each week, we provide a cartoon in need of a caption. You, the reader, submit a caption, we choose three finalists, and you vote for your favorite. Caption submissions for this week’s cartoon, by Edward Koren, must be received by Sunday, April 18th. The finalists in the April 5th contest appear below. We will announce the winner, and the finalists in this week’s contest, in the May 10th issue. Anyone age thirteen or older can enter or vote. To do so, and to read the complete rules, visit contest.newyorker.com.

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


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