This week, our Summer Fiction Issue, Crimes & Misdemeanors, hits newsstands. The images accompanying each Fiction piece feature type designed by Timothy Goodman, photographs by Grant Cornett, and prop styling by Shane Klein and Theo Vamvounakis. Here’s a video trailer for the issue, shot by Grant Cornett and edited by Ivan Hurzeler.
Jessie Wender, formerly a photo editor at The New Yorker, is a senior photo editor at National Geographic.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Our Local Correspondents
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
By Adam Iscoe
Profiles
Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar
Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional uncertainty. What better time to try standup comedy?
By Helen Rosner
Annals of Gastronomy
A Martini Tour of New York City
My month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.
By Gary Shteyngart
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump Is Being Ritually Humiliated in Court
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
By Eric Lach