This Week’s Issue: Should Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots?

Also in the Spring Style & Design Issue: Patrick Radden Keefe on London oligarchs; Calvin Trillin on tuxedos; and Kimon de Greef on psychedelic toads. View in browser | Update your preferences Get the in-depth analysis and on-the-ground reporting you need to understand the war in Ukraine. Subscribe today » Dispatches The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. By Masha Gessen Annals of Fashion Should Leopards Be Paid for Their Spots? Style-setters have embraced leopard prints. Proponents of a “species royalty” want designers to pay to help save endangered big cats. By Rebecca Mead Dept. of Psychopharmacology The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads Octavio Rettig, an underground practitioner of 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogenic substance derived from Sonoran Desert toads, claims that he has revived a lost Mesoamerican ritual. By Kimon de Greef Personal History Getting Accustomed to My Second Tuxedo I’d concluded that after thirty-five years it was time for a change. By Calvin Trillin Letter from Daytona Beach Retirement the Margaritaville Way At the active-living community for Jimmy Buffett enthusiasts, it’s five o’clock everywhere. By Nick Paumgarten Culture Desk Join Us for The New Yorker Live Spring Series One week, three events making sense of the news and offering a dose of comedy. By The New Yorker Books How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed. By Patrick Radden Keefe Comment The Complexities of the Ukraine Dilemma The aid offered by the West may help, but it cannot relieve Volodymyr Zelensky of the terrible predicaments he must manage in the weeks ahead. By Steve Coll Profiles The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh Recognition for the American sculptor, who is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, may have come late but it seems foreordained. By Calvin Tomkins A Critic at Large The Shaming-Industrial Complex In the online era, shaming is a national pastime, and yet shameless conduct persists. Should we double down? By Becca Rothfeld Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Movie Club Newsletter Reviews of the current cinema, plus recommendations for classics and underrated treasures available on streaming services, every Friday. Humor from The New Yorker Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for This Week's Issue from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.