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Contributors • This special issue continues online. Visit newyorker.com/100

The Mail

Goings On • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing. MAY 7 – 20, 2025

Tables for Two: Kabawa

Comment: New York, New York

Wind On Capitol Hill: Family Feud

Henny Penny Dept.: Fiascoes Past and Present

New Kid Dept.: Hammered

Sketchpad: Remembering a Few of the Greats

Our Local Correspondents: Pigeon Toes • How humble birds brave the city on bare feet.

The Sporting Scene: Goliath vs. Goliath • If the Mets cease to be underdogs, are they still the Mets?

Takes: Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross’s “The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue” Michael Schulman

Profiles: Now You See Her • Lorna Simpson’s art plays with what photographs don’t reveal.

A Reporter at Large: Tight Quarters • Twelve Ecuadorian migrants crowd into one apartment in Queens.

Annals of Transportation: Circling the Block • Why New York drivers waste two hundred million hours a year looking for a place to park.

Poems: her disquietude absorbed.

Portfolio: Power Houses • Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers.

Fiction: Travesty

Poems: What Happened to New York

Takes: Rachel Syme on Kennedy Fraser’s “As Gorgeous as It Gets”

A Critic at Large: This Old House • The New Yorker through memoir.

The Wayward Press: Extra, Extra! • A love-hate relationship with the New York Post.

Books: Soft Lights, Big City • Keith McNally’s dining empire.

Books: Briefly Noted

The Current Cinema: Time Regained • “Caught by the Tides.”

Cartoon Caption Contest

Puzzles & Games Dept.: City Blocks • A themed crossword.