The Magazine
July 22, 2019
Reporting
Profiles
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case
The Presidential candidate has been criticized as a defender of the status quo. Can she prove that she’s a force for change?
Onward and Upward with the Arts
A Millennial Countertenor’s Pop-Star Appeal
Jakub Józef Orliński brings a swooning sultriness—and a bunch of break-dancing moves—to the Baroque-music revival.
Annals of Medicine
The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies
New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?
The Critics
Books
How Picasso’s Muse Became a Master
Françoise Gilot was the artist’s lover and pupil. Then she wanted more.
The Art World
Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating
A re-creation of the auteur’s most personal show, madly grand and deadpan daft, essentializes a strange glamour that has leaked from the art world into culture at large.
Books
The Art of Aphorism
Why are these fragments of wisdom—empirical or mystical, funny or profound—such an enduring form?
The Current Cinema
“The Farewell” Mixes Mourning and Revelry
When a merry grandmother welcomes her family to Changchun for a wedding, she’s the only one who doesn’t know that she’s dying.
The Talk of the Town
Pop-Up Dept.
What’s in a Woke McRib?
The chefs Roy Choi and Jose Mejia sample the Vegan Hooligans’ plant-based junk food at an L.A. pop-up.
Protégé Dept.
Dancing a Memoir at Alvin Ailey
The choreographer Troy Powell tells his life story—with pint-sized doppelgängers—in “Testimony.”
Sewing Circle
Stitch ’n’ Bitch for the Trump Era
The Tiny Pricks Project collects the President’s priceless utterances and embroiders them on doilies and dish towels.
Paraphernalia Dept.
Marc Maron Chooses His Weapon
The podcasting star of “Sword of Trust” joins the director Lynn Shelton to check out the arms and armor—and some guitars—at the Met.
Comment
The Battle for Health Care
The latest Republican effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act appears likely to reach the Supreme Court in the heat of the 2020 Presidential race.
Shouts & Murmurs
Shouts & Murmurs
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Cartoons
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“Before you pack that, I want you to think—is it good or bad for America’s prestige abroad?”
Fiction
Fiction
She Said He Said
Portfolio
Over the Moon
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 landing, a look back at some of The New Yorker’s space-exploration cover art.
Poems
Poems
Sentence
Poems
These Are the Pearls
Goings On About Town
Tables for Two
Udon Takes On New Texture at Hanon
A Williamsburg outpost of a restaurant in Kamakura gives the oft-neglected Japanese noodle its due.
Art
A Brazilian Polymath’s Tropical Oasis at the New York Botanical Garden
Roberto Burle Marx designed a swirling garden path at Copacabana Beach, and his American protégé has created a fragrant homage to the landscape architect in the Bronx.
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