| |  Profiles The Wild World of MusicWhat can elephants, birds, and flamenco players teach a neuroscientist-composer about music? By Burkhard Bilger | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story Luci Gutiérrez’s “Rise and Shine”The artist discusses the first rays of spring sunlight, and the pleasures and challenges of routine. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Annals of Religion How Christian Is Christian Nationalism? Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement? By Kelefa Sanneh |  American Chronicles The Data Delusion We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines. What if it doesn’t have all the answers? By Jill Lepore | |  A Reporter at Large The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign Rumors destroyed Hazim Nada’s company. Then hackers handed him terabytes of files exposing a covert campaign against him—and the culprit wasn’t a rival but an entire country. By David D. Kirkpatrick |  Comment How Republicans Are Handling Trump’s Possible Indictment The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles. By Amy Davidson Sorkin | | | | | The Critics |  Books A Shape-Shifting Short-Story Collection Defies Categorization Kelly Link’s postmodern fairy tales make the case for enchantment. By Kristen Roupenian |  The Theatre The Wounded Bluesmen of “Hang Time” In Zora Howard’s play, at the Flea, three Black men hanging in midair discuss their world views, seemingly stuck in the gray gap between life and death. By Vinson Cunningham | |  On Television Victoriana Drenched in Red Bull, in FX’s “Great Expectations” A new television adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel, streaming on Hulu, avows, too brashly at times, that it’s no staid PBS affair. By Inkoo Kang |  Books Why the Animal Kingdom Is Full of Con Artists Some crows “cry wolf” to snatch food from their neighbors; some caterpillars trick ants into treating them like queens. What can we learn from beasts that bluff? By Elizabeth Kolbert | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Alisa”“It was very simple: once she was overcome by an unbearable illness, she could poison herself.” By Lyudmila Ulitskaya | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Upcoming Landmarks in Artificial Intelligence Robot police dogs that don’t need oiling, autonomous dental floss, and other neato perks on the road to the Singularity. By Henry Alford |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Two-player two-pointers: nine letters. By Will Nediger |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger | | | | | Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction NewsletterBook recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  On Television “Succession” Finally Moves Forward The HBO series has been stuck in a frustrating loop. Now, with its fourth and final season, the Roy family saga is finding a more generous palette of feeling and situation. By Brandon Taylor |  Elements The Myth of the Alpha Wolf The model of aggression and dominance has infected human society. But new research shows how wrong we got it. By Rivka Galchen | | | | | | | | |
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