| |  Letter from Chengdu The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese SchoolThe President of China compared moral education to buttons on clothes. The girls’ buttons were wrong from the start, but they learned the more valuable lessons that two systems can impart. By Peter Hessler | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “Declaration of Independence”The artist of this week’s cover, Kadir Nelson, discusses the charm of all kinds of summer excursions. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop covers from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Annals of Science How Plastics Are Poisoning Us They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? By Elizabeth Kolbert |  The Ancient World The Divine Comedy of Roman Emperors’ Last Words In the end, godlike aspirations often met with all too human final moments. By Mary Beard | |  A Reporter at Large The Perils and Promises of Penis-Enlargement Surgery One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured. By Ava Kofman |  Comment The Hazy Days of Summer An awareness that the air around you isn’t fit to breathe can be a uniquely alarming sensation. It is also likely to become more common. By Dhruv Khullar | | | | | The Critics |  Books Aristotle’s Rules for Living Well The Nicomachean Ethics is an unexampled work by a paragon of classical thought. How does it hold up as a self-help manual? By Nikhil Krishnan |  The Theatre The Witch Hunt in “The Doctor” Juliet Stevenson stars in Robert Icke’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, as a doctor who is a target of antisemitism, and also language policing. By Helen Shaw | |  On Television The End of “Happy Valley,” an Unusually Intimate Crime Drama The British cop series, starring Sarah Lancashire, displays a fascination not with violence but with the lengthy shadow it leaves behind. By Inkoo Kang |  Books How to Raise a Man Child In “Directions to Myself,” Heidi Julavits worries about what the world will do to her son—and what he might do to the world. By Alexandra Schwartz | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Valley of the Moon”“The tinker shook his head. ‘Who wants to live out here? Only you. Not even the soldiers guarding the border, a day’s journey north, want to be there.’ ” By Paul Yoon | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs “The Brand New Show”: A Treatment If it stays on, we might call it “The Old New Show.” Or “The Show.” Or “Dag Hammarskjöld,” which we feel would confuse and intrigue viewers. By John Kenney |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle “Pagliacci” protagonist: five letters. By Elizabeth C. Gorski |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Matt Jackson | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  The Weekend Essay The Case Against Travel It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best. By Agnes Callard |  News Desk The Wagner Group Is a Crisis of Putin’s Own Making For a decade, the Russian President outsourced his military ambitions to the mercenary force and its pugnacious leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin—then they turned against him. By Joshua Yaffa | | | | | | | | |
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