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Letter from Lima

What Led Peru’s Former President to Take His Own Life?

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

Personal History

The Lingering of Loss

My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.

Culture Desk

Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael Wears His Crown

There was something overwhelming and surreal about watching him as he leapt back and forth, beseeching us to match his boundless energy with our own, until we realized: Oh, yeah, that’s what a leader looks like.

A Reporter at Large

Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?

Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life.

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Profiles

On the Road with Mitski

The musician, who writes achingly intense songs about private yearnings, has spent the past year in performance venues packed with fellow-loners.

Rabbit Holes

A Word of Thanks for My Compression Socks

There’s something about starting at the bottom of your feet and squeezing all your excess up, as though you were a tube of toothpaste. Your body feels lighter, your head feels clearer, your limbs feel freer.

The Front Row

“Spider-Man: Far from Home”: The Illusion of a Good Movie

The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a work of crude and trendy distinctions between material realities and fabricated media images.

The New Yorker Interview

Robert Caro on L.B.J., Robert Moses, and His Own Career

The journalist and biographer discusses his famous subjects and their use of power, his reporting methods, and the time he got called out by one of his professors at Princeton.

Kitchen Notes

Coming Back to Ackee and Salt Fish

Our meals are associated with memories, but that’s not to say that we can’t carve out new ones. The things that we run away from can be the same things that call us home.

Puzzles Dept.

The Weekday Crossword

Posts about “Game of Thrones,” often: six letters.

The Latest

Will California’s New Bot Law Strengthen Democracy?

California is the first state to try to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter.

July 2, 2019

The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music

In 1917, the Boston Symphony’s refusal to include the national anthem in a concert triggered a xenophobic panic that led to the arrest of the conductor Karl Muck.

July 2, 2019

Signatures in Danny Zuko’s Yearbook

Parting words for the graduating greaser, from memorable and forgettable characters alike.

July 2, 2019

David Rabe Reads “Uncle Jim Called”

The author reads his story from the July 8 & 15, 2019, issue of the magazine.

July 2, 2019
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Video

Wave

When Gaspar Rubicon wakes from a coma speaking an unrecognizable language, he posts a video online seeking human connection and wakes the voice of the Internet in unexpected ways.

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Photo Booth

Gioncarlo Valentine’s Searing Portraits of Black Men in Baltimore

All of the subjects in “The Soft Fence” move, walk, pose, stunt, and style like they’re afraid.

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From This Week’s Issue
Tables for Two

Go Bold at Da Long Yi Hot Pot

At the chain’s first American outpost, which distinguishes itself with a three-flavor pot, make like a Chengdu local and try pig brain and pork kidney.

On Television

Off-Kilter Humor on “Los Espookys” and “Alternatino”

The surreal, absurdist aesthetics of the silly and satisfying new series can be loose and healthily illogical, with plenty of big laughs.

Undead Dept.

Jim Jarmusch Is Afraid of Cherubs and Abe Lincoln

The director of “The Dead Don’t Die” on headstone symbols, mycology, how ghouls should move, and why zombies are having a moment.

Fiction

“Uncle Jim Called”

“I held my breath, trying to hear. But I couldn’t understand a word. Or, rather, a word here and there was all I could understand. The sense eluded me.”

Our Columnists

Joe Biden’s Performance Raises Big Doubts About His Campaign

The primary debate generated fresh concerns about the former Vice-President’s preparation, age, and basic political skills.

Here Comes Boris Johnson!

The fervent Brexiteer is now running for British Prime Minister against Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, who nobody thinks can win.

Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall

The world is not what I imagined: I thought we would have retired the concept of sexual orientation and made a bigger dent in gender.

Kamala Harris Won in Miami, but Vladimir Putin Won in Osaka

As the Democratic debates ended Thursday night, in Miami, President Trump seemed to want to insure that his Japan summit would emphasize not statesmanship so much as in-your-facemanship.

Debate Viewers Struggle with the Concept of a President Without a Personality Disorder

Americans said they were having difficulty imagining a President who does not display flagrant signs of malignant narcissism, impulse-control deficit, or rampant paranoia.

Danny Boyle’s Comedic Fantasy About a World Without the Beatles

“Yesterday” is a romantic comedy, but a conceptually complex one, built on a peculiarly reactionary framework of private life and a culturally conservative pop classicism.

Podcasts

Emily Nussbaum on the TV Revolution, and Valeria Luiselli on the Border

The New Yorker’s television critic demands respect for her medium, and a Mexican writer goes to the Southwest to try to understand the vigilante mindset.

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