| |  Letter from Iten Why Were Two Female Running Champions Killed in Kenya?Iten, a small town in the Great Rift Valley, became the long-distance-running capital of the world. Then, within a span of six months, two élite athletes were found dead. By Alexis Okeowo | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story Jane Rosenberg’s “Courtroom Sketch, Manhattan Criminal Courthouse”For the first time in its long history, The New Yorker is publishing a courtroom sketch on the cover. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop covers from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Annals of Gastronomy Slutty Vegan Puts the Party in Plant-Based Food Pinky Cole’s Atlanta-based burger chain is valued at a hundred million dollars. Can racy branding take vegan food mainstream? By Charles Bethea |  American Chronicles How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent. By Kathryn Schulz | |  Comment How Will Donald Trump’s Trial Play on the Campaign Trail? Trump must now operate with two calendars in mind—the court’s and the campaign’s—and so must much of the machinery of American politics. By Amy Davidson Sorkin |  A Reporter at Large The Covert Mission to Solve a Mexican Journalist’s Murder After a reporter who investigated narcopolitics died, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity. By Melissa del Bosque | | | | | The Critics |  Books The Exhausting History of Fatigue Having too much to do can be tiring; having nothing to do may be worse. By Anthony Lane |  Musical Events Max Richter’s Doleful Minimalism The composer is everywhere on film and television soundtracks, promising that we will dissolve in mist before the apocalypse arrives. By Alex Ross | |  On Television Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflix’s “Beef” The drama, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, is a study of male loneliness—a familiar theme in prestige TV that finds renewed urgency in an Asian American context. By Inkoo Kang |  Books The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis In “True Grit,” and other novels, Portis displayed a genius that went beyond character in the strictly literary sense. By Casey Cep | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Evensong”“Then one day I had an actual revelation. It came to me that I might never know very much about anything.” By Laurie Colwin | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs My Husband’s Secret Life He’d disappear to the Coast for weeks at a time. He’d check into hotels using an assumed name. And why did I keep seeing him on “The View”? By Steve Martin |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Hawker of Vitameatavegamin, on old TV: four letters. By Anna Shechtman |  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 Recommends NewsletterDiscover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  Persons of Interest Jodie Comer Puts Her Talents on Trial The actress often plays women defined by their mastery. In “Prima Facie,” she takes on her toughest role yet: a lawyer who defends men accused of sexual assault. By Parul Sehgal |  The New Yorker Interview Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies Happy The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” By Helen Rosner | | | | | | | | |
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