Last week at the end of the “Game of Thrones” première, Dany said, “Shall we?” This week, the answer was “We shall!” (Spoilers)

“The beach is always only three hundred feet from my studio,” Javier Mariscal, the artist behind the cover of this week’s issue, says. 

Last night’s “Game of Thrones” première jumped right in, beginning with our old friend revenge, served in goblets.

What did our Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Emily Nussbaum think of “Game of Thrones” all the way back in 2012? Take a moment to find out. 

When we asked Barry Blitt about his cover for this week’s issue, he responded by quoting a Russian: “Tolstoy said that ‘happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ Somehow this seems to apply to the Trumps, particularly lately.”

Behind a pub in rural England, a doctor is working to change the laws governing outer space. He talks about his novel strategy to claim Mars on this week’s New Yorker Radio Hour.

Nick Kyrgios, a 22-year-old Australian, is the only active player ever to defeat Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic in their first meetings; he has beaten Nadal and Djokovic twice, in fact, and came within a few points of a second victory over Federer earlier this year. 

He has been called the most talented player since Roger Federer. But does he even want to win? Read more here. 

What to stream this weekend: Five French films for Bastille Day. 

The film’s subject is demagogy, a teen-age superhero boy’s abuse of his powers to show off—to win celebrity, to win friends, and, above all, to impress a girl in his high school. 

If Venus Williams wins, it will be her sixth title at the All England Club, her first since 2008, and her eighth major title over all. She is one of the greatest tennis players of all time.