newyorker.com / .newyorker-com-magazine / Page 3

In Josh Safdie's hectic new film, Timothée Chalamet plays a gifted Ping-Pong player who's also a born performer.

Also: Graciela Iturbide's tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in "Song Sung Blue," the coke-rap of Clipse, and more.

The "Bowling alley" singer bowls a few frames and explains how her pal Gracie Abrams inspired her to switch from writing for Nickelodeon to writing songs.

For the late Broadway composer, crafting crosswords and treasure hunts was as thrilling as writing musicals.

Can you make your way through The New Yorker's labyrinthine offices before our printer shuts down for the holidays?

Can you solve the clues to reveal a cartoon caption hidden in the snow?

Ideas for under the tree: Expired canned goods? Nonworking appliance? Unwanted adult child?

"When we try to pretend the moon moves / across our faces, we get a disco ball."

He had his own world: a place where the funny and the horrific crossed paths.

He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters.