Donald Trump vs. New York City
By Daniel Wenger
“We’re not shutting down Trump’s speech,” said one protester. “We’re shutting down what he stands for.”
The Showdown in Brooklyn
A Lively Exchange on the Waterfront
By Amy Davidson
Elements
Will This Be the Summer of Zika?
By Joshua Lang
With no vaccine available, the only way to prevent an outbreak is to fight the virus’s main carrier: the mosquito.
The Current Cinema
Taming “The Jungle Book”
By Anthony Lane
Jon Favreau’s remake of the 1967 Disney animated movie is technically astounding, but missing the call of the wild.
News Desk
The Rape Case Shaking Mexico
By León Krauze
A father’s search for justice has turned the story of a teen-age girl’s assault in Veracruz into a national outrage.
News Desk
The Myth of the “Black Vote”
By Collier Meyerson
Geography, identity, and age have cut into conventional narratives about race and voting patterns within the Democratic Party.
Fiction
“Anhedonia, Here I Come”
By Colin Barrett
“Bobby had been writing and rewriting and refining and re-refining the manuscript of his début collection for more than eight years now.”
The Latest
Clinton, Sanders, and the Myth of a Monolithic “Black Vote”
By Collier Meyerson
This year, variables like age and geography have cut into conventional narratives about race and voting patterns within the Democratic Party.
Light as Touch: Jenny Holzer’s Nighttime Poetry Projections
By Henri Cole
Seeing my poems projected onto landscapes and buildings, I feel that the words become more direct, unself-conscious, and human.
Bernie and Hillary on the Waterfront
By Amy Davidson
Bitter exchanges over judgment and the value of political dreams punctuated a rich debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Thursday night.
My Weight-Lifting Goals
By Colin Stokes
A few years ago, I started off easy by lifting a bird feather once a day.
Spotlight
Books
Americans in the Spanish Civil War
By Caleb Crain
Young and idealistic, they signed up to fight Fascism, but were quickly disillusioned.
A Reporter at Large
Exposing Assad’s War Crimes
By Ben Taub
The top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.
Page-Turner
Tennis As a Metaphor
By John Jeremiah Sullivan
David Foster Wallace wrote about the sport in fiction, essays, journalism, and reviews; it may be his most consistent theme.
Pop Music
A New Vision of J Dilla
By Hua Hsu
A posthumous release of his album “The Diary” complicates his legacy.
Daily Cartoon
The Magazine
In This Week’s Issue
Tables for Two
Eating Japanese Philosophy
By Becky Cooper
For a chef who believes in simplicity, Yuji Haraguchi offers a lot of options; his Williamsburg restaurant, Okonomi, becomes Yuji Ramen on weekdays.
Shouts & Murmurs
A Guide to E-Mail Sign-Offs
By Emma Rathbone
“XX”: This indicates strong professional hostility.
Up Life’s Ladder
Making Theatre out of Finance
By Lauren Collins
“Run,” a small but sparkling play in London, dramatizes the plights of young high-earners.
Our Columnists
John Cassidy
Bernie Sanders Takes Greenwich Village
By John Cassidy
Like a radical preacher of the old school, he tailored his lines for his audience but kept his message exactly the same.
Amy Davidson
Ted Cruz Meets New York Values
By Amy Davidson
Despite insulting hardworking New Yorkers, Cruz may not get what he deserves in the state’s primary.
Borowitz Report
No One Notices Disappearance of Chris Christie
By Andy Borowitz
Few if any Americans displayed interest in his whereabouts.
From the Desk of Bob Mankoff
The World of William Hamilton
By Robert Mankoff
His drawings were a delight, and he skewered the comfortable class he was a member of with acerbic wit.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
John Kasich, Protest Candidate
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The support for the Ohio governor is a stand against the tone of the primary—not by the fringe but by the social establishment.
Richard Brody
France’s Dystopian Employment Situation, on Film
By Richard Brody
Stéphane Brizé’s “The Measure of a Man” has just become even more timely.
Podcasts
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episode 25: The Ballad of a Trump Fan, and The Little Mermaid Gets Dumped
Two giants of soul music, and a song chronicling a South Carolinian’s fascination with Trump.
Photo Booth
Paul Strand’s Sense of Things
By Andrew Dickson
Revisiting the great photographer’s long and varied career, forty years after his death.
Video
Boogaloo and Graham
By Michael Lennox
In this Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning short film, two boys from nineteen-seventies Belfast discover the facts of life with help from their two pet chickens.