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This Week’s Cover
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“I grew up amid Manhattan’s monotonous grid and found the endless boxes, aligned along strict perpendiculars, overwhelming. As a child, the Guggenheim’s round form was my oasis,” this week’s cover artist, Eric Drooker, says. “In a hectic, crowded metropolis, it was a breath of fresh air, a return to nature.”
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Reporting & Essays
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Letter from Beijing
The Future, Made in ChinaBeijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
By Evan Osnos
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U.S. Journal
The American Art of Blowing Stuff UpFireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.
By Paige Williams
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American Chronicles
How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump EverythingThe lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
By Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
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Our Far-Flung Correspondents
The Man Who Was Kidnapped TwiceThousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
By Alexis Okeowo
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The Critics
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Books
How Golden Is Silence, Actually? A secret history of shutting up.
By Anthony Lane
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Books
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.
By Katy Waldman
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The Art World
Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him.
By Zachary Fine
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On Television
“Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny.
By Inkoo Kang
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The Talk of the Town
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Same Shit Dept.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut.
By Zach Helfand
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Dept. of Nomenclature
Battle of the Dans Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan are both vying for a Senate seat in Alaska. Who will take the Last Frontier?
By Jon Allsop
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The Pictures
Robb Moss Is Still Going with the Flow The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time.
By Nick Paumgarten
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L.A. Postcard
Eric Wareheim, Plant Dad The “Master of None” actor and half of the duo Tim and Eric turned his post-divorce hobby—collecting Dr. Seussian trees and shrubs—into a hipster business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler as clients.
By Oren Peleg
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More Top Stories
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Elements
How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars The oak processionary caterpillar, which is spreading as Europe warms, fills the air with microscopic hairs that inflict excruciating rashes.
By Ben Crair
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Annals of Justice
How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.
By Jennifer Gonnerman
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On Television
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium.
By Sarah Larson
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The Lede
Inside OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I.
By Stephen Witt
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Cartoon by Matilda Borgström
“This data center is set aside for storing accidental screenshots of your phone’s home screen.”
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