A Murder Rocks New Orleans
By Brett Martin
The shooting death of a beloved former football player was a tragically normal crime for the Crescent City.
The Showdown in Brooklyn
Bernie and Hillary on the Waterfront
By Amy Davidson
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.
Cultural Comment
The Originality of Led Zeppelin
By Alex Ross
If “Stairway to Heaven” is plagiarized, so is a good portion of the classical canon.
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.”
Sketchbook
Hillary vs. Bernie, in New York
By Barry Blitt
An illustrated diary of the primaries.
Books
Americans in the Spanish Civil War
By Caleb Crain
Young and idealistic, they signed up to fight Fascism, but were quickly disillusioned.
The Latest
When the Maysles Brothers Filmed the Beatles
By Richard Brody
A 1964 documentary on view at Film Forum shows the young artists to be not media creations but media geniuses.
A Young Artist Confronts the Sinking of the Titanic
By Robert Sullivan
“I was basically thinking about travelling from place to place,” the artist said. “And tragedy. And history.”
Episode 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad
With David Remnick
On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about running a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park.
Carbonara Purists Can’t Stop the Pasta Revolution
By Adam Gopnik
The French pseudo-carbonara that has provoked outrage in Italy is merely one episode in a larger pasta revolution sweeping Europe and America.
Spotlight
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.
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.
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.
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
Ben Carson Says He Doesn't Remember Running for President
By Andy Borowitz
“I’ve been told that I did it, but I find it impossible to believe,” he said. “I don’t think I’d forget a thing like that.”
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 26: Syrian War Crimes, Country Music, and a Central Park Salad
On this week’s show, David Remnick talks with a war-crimes expert about running a fair tribunal, and Patricia Marx goes foraging in Central Park.
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.