Table of Contents

October 21, 2013Fall Books

Articles with a blue lock are available only to subscribers. For complete access to the magazine, subscribe now.

Features

Profiles

Two-Hit Wonderby D. T. Max

Jack Dorsey’s streamlined revolutions.
American Chronicles

Gone Girlby Margaret Talbot

Elizabeth Smart’s great escape.
Dept. of History

Lydda, 1948by Ari Shavit

A massacre and the exodus that followed.
Letter from Havana

Private Eyesby Jon Lee Anderson

A crime writer surveys a changing Cuba.

The Talk of the Town

Comment

Impeach Obama!by Hendrik Hertzberg

The G.O.P. insurrection.
Dept. of Hoopla

If the Shoe Fitsby Rebecca Mead

A Jimmy Choo co-founder’s new book.
Wind on Capitol Hill

Nail-Biterby Lizzie Widdicombe

Hostage negotiators, the new political analysts.
The Pictures

Victory Lapby Michael Schulman

Nicole Holofcener visits her old neighborhood.
The Financial Page

Open Seasonby James Surowiecki

The drive for transparency in executive pay.

Shouts & Murmurs

Luauby Jack Handey

Cartoons

Drawings: Jason Patterson, Farley Katz, William Haefeli, Barbara Smaller, Jack Ziegler, Drew Dernavich, Paul Noth, Roz Chast, Liam Francis Walsh, P. C. Vey, Frank Cotham, Bruce Eric Kaplan, David Sipress, Edward Steed, Edward Koren, Robert Leighton, Amy Hwang, Joe Dator, Mort Gerberg, Julian Rowe, Sam Gross, Zachary Kanin, Kaamran Hafeez
Subscribe to The New Yorker

Newyorker Digital

  • This Week: Links to articles and Web-only features in your inbox every Monday.
  • Cartoons: A weekly note from the New Yorker's cartoon editor.
  • Daily: What's new today on newyorker.com.
  • Receive all the latest fake news from The Borowitz Report.
I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its User Agreement, and Privacy Policy.