When I first get a New Yorker, the first thing I do is look at the Table of Contents. Not only the title of a piece, but the sub-heading which tells you a little more about that story. We’ve been unhappy with the Gothamberg interface only showing stories as animated scrolls for a long time now. We had discussed ‘plumbing’, that is, various ways to connect stories to each other. So our solution was to recess the stories and highlight the ‘plumbing’, so creating a dynamic, interconnected index that links and hints at the stories and their connection to each other.

Interconnections can be:
A common phrase between stories
Author
Character
Uncommon phrases (to show the difference between stories)
Location of story (apartment, lobby, elevator, basement etc)