Until the New Yorker Magazine website converts to a new paywall (sometime in September 2014), all new articles and all archived articles after 2007 are free for all to access (see www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/note-readers.
As succinctly described by Wikipedia, The New Yorker Magazine is "well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copyediting, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue"
Enjoy some very interesting and thought-provoking articles,
http://longform.org/posts/our-25-favorite-unlocked-new-yorke…
An interesting piece on elevators:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-dow…
Here is a link to some of Alice Munro's superb short stories which were published in the New Yorker:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/read-14-short-stories-fro…