“It’s distressing contemplating another story like this,” Barry Blitt says about the appalling murders referenced on next week’s cover. “But not really surprising, I guess.” His cover, titled "Nine," will appear on the June 29, 2015, issue. For more on the Charleston massacre, read David Remnick, Jelani Cobb, and Amy Davidson.
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
Mina Kaneko is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
Culture Desk
Cover Story: Peter Mendelsund’s “Injustice: Baltimore, 2015”
By Françoise Mouly and Mina Kaneko
Photo Booth
Capturing the Spirit of a City on Fire
The photographer Andrew Friendly watched Los Angeles burn, and then come together.
By Dana Goodyear
The Political Scene Podcast
Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs
With a single act, the President has upended the entire global economic order.
The Weekend Essay
Desperate for Botox
A fiftysomething writer’s quest to get injectables.
By Sarah Miller
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Why the Tech Giant Nvidia May Own the Future. Plus, Joshua Rothman on Taking A.I. Seriously
Stephen Witt on the microchip maker’s rise, and the geopolitical challenges it faces. And Rothman thinks people outside the tech world should help shape the impact of A.I.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Writer Katie Kitamura on Autonomy, Interpretation, and “Audition”
The novelist speaks with the staff writer Jennifer Wilson about her newest book, “Audition,” a nuanced story about desire, agency, and creative craft.
The Lede
Has Trump’s Legal Strategy Backfired?
Federal judges do not take well to being lied to or treated, as one put it, like idiots.
By Ruth Marcus
The Theatre
Retro Masculinity in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck”
Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk try to close the deal in David Mamet’s classic, and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage.
By Helen Shaw
The Current Cinema
“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
Alex Garland’s latest film, which he co-directed with the former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, dramatizes a little-known 2006 episode from the Iraq War.
By Justin Chang