| |  A Reporter at Large Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. By Jon Lee Anderson | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “All Rise!”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Mark Ulriksen, discusses Aaron Judge’s sixtieth home run and sitting with the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Life and Letters The Shock and Aftershocks of “The Waste Land” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece is a hundred years old, but it has never stopped sounding new. By Anthony Lane |  Personal History How to Recover from a Happy Childhood Like many children, I didn’t really understand what my parents were like. But I collected clues. By Rivka Galchen | |  Profiles Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended. By Ed Caesar |  Comment When Migrants Become Political Pawns Governor DeSantis appeared to be attempting to troll people whose magnanimity, he seemed to believe, is inversely proportional to the extent to which a given problem has an impact on their own lives. By Jelani Cobb | | | | | The Critics |  Books The Troublesome Legacy of the Early Romantics Express yourself! That credo was forged by a group of brilliant, oversexed German visionaries in the late eighteenth century. But did they really think it through? By Nikhil Krishnan |  Books The Mysteries of Mondrian A newly translated biography excavates the enigmatic genius of the Dutch modernist who reduced painting’s whats and hows to a rock-bottom why. By Peter Schjeldahl | |  Musical Events John Adams Captures the Music of Shakespeare The composer’s new opera, “Antony and Cleopatra,” displays his mastery at setting the complex rhythms of the English language. By Alex Ross |  The Theatre An Actor’s One-Man Apotheosis David Greenspan turns Gertrude Stein’s “Four Saints in Three Acts” into a solo tour de force. By Helen Shaw | | | | |  | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs I Want to Know You Am I wrong, or is snuggling in the trunk of a car with a gag in your mouth not a shortcut to intimacy? By Rima Parikh |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Dobson who played the title character in “Cleopatra Jones”: six letters. By Natan Last |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  The New Yorker Festival Time Is Running Out Buy your tickets for The New Yorker Festival, featuring leading figures from politics, comedy, film, music, and more. By The New Yorker |  The New Yorker Interview Joyce Carol Oates Doesn’t Prefer Blondes The novelist shares her thoughts on the appeal of underdogs, Andrew Dominik’s film adaptation of her novel, and the mythic masculine and feminine. By Katy Waldman | | | | | | | | |
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