The Magazine
June 3, 2019
Reporting
A Reporter at Large
How Football Leaks Is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer
While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his revelations are bringing down the sport’s most famous teams and players.
Onward and Upward with the Arts
Antonio Salieri’s Revenge
He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.
Annals of Parenthood
Parenting by the Numbers
The economist Emily Oster challenges the conventional wisdom on child rearing.
The Political Scene
Can Beto Bounce Back?
O’Rourke’s Senate campaign created huge enthusiasm, but he has faltered as a Presidential candidate. He’s trying to revive his campaign by meeting every voter he can.
The Critics
Books
The Bittersweet Poetry of “Lima :: Limón”
Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s latest poems probe the richness of contradiction, mixing violence and pleasure, damage and repair.
On Television
TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo
Many creators are visibly struggling to adjust to the changing landscape, rejecting the “very special episode” path and seeking something more honest and original.
The Art World
Timelessness in Works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden
Two small shows in the Hudson Valley hint at long spiritual rhythms that are not lost, though they may be occluded, in the staccato frenzies of our day.
The Current Cinema
A Live-Action “Aladdin” Falls Short of Its Animated Predecessor
The director Guy Ritchie has reheated the 1992 Disney film’s tropes and tunes to graceless and cumbersome effect.
The Talk of the Town
Dark Glasses Dept.
Chloë Sevigny Can Make You an It Girl, Too
The actress, director, and style icon checked on her new line of cool-girl eyeglass frames for Warby Parker before heading off to the Cannes Film Festival.
Brave New World
The Parkland Provocateur Kyle Kashuv Prepares to Graduate
How did the Harvard-bound shooting survivor, a former leader of the young-conservative organization Turning Point USA, react when his racial slurs and hate speech surfaced online?
Pomp Dept.
N.Y.U.’s Graduation Marathon Man
The university’s president, Andrew Hamilton, hit twenty commencement ceremonies this year, zipping around the city before flying to campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai.
Base Notes
Scents and Sensibility
Ron Winnegrad, the perfumer behind Love’s Baby Soft, coaches his synesthesia students on how to see the colors summoned by pencil shavings, “whale poop,” and the dried glands of the beaver.
Comment
The Challenge at the Border Shows No Signs of Abating
Another migrant child has died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a system where the quality of mercy is under extreme strain.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
Creative
Cartoons
1/15
“Why, no. I don’t feel any human bond between us.”
Fiction
Fiction
Canvas
Poems
Goings On About Town
Art
Wave Hill’s Memorial Day Tour
The twenty-eight-acre garden, which overlooks the Hudson River in the Bronx, is a great place to kick off the first three-day weekend of the season.
Tables for Two
Szechuan Mountain House Gives Proletarian Fare the Palace Treatment
Classic dishes get poetic reinventions and opulent plating, with the same dedication to capsaicin as the originals.
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