| |  Letter from El Salvador The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian PresidentThe budding strongman has ridden Bitcoin schemes and a repressive crackdown on gangs to become Latin America’s most popular leader. By Jonathan Blitzer | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “Top Dog”The cover artist for this week’s issue, John Cuneo, discusses canine stars, his first trip abroad, and keeping a sense of the spontaneous in his work. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  A Reporter at Large The Victim Who Became the Accused After a Black female police officer reported that a white male colleague had taken advantage of her sexually, she found herself on trial. By Rachel Aviv |  Life and Letters George Balanchine’s Soviet Reckoning New York City Ballet’s 1962 tour of the U.S.S.R. forced the great choreographer to confront the regime he’d fled and the people he’d left behind. By Jennifer Homans | |  Annals of Nature Killing Invasive Species Is Now a Competitive Sport In the Florida Panhandle, where swarms of lionfish gobble up native species, a tournament offers cash prizes to divers skilled at spearing one predator after another. By D. T. Max |  Comment Mikhail Gorbachev’s Enduring Example The first and last President of the U.S.S.R. was, as he once put it, both a “product” and an “anti-product” of the Soviet system. By David Remnick | | | | |  | The New Yorker Festival: Our signature event returns to New York City, October 7th through 9th, with a dynamic mix of live conversations, performances, and more. Subscribers get exclusive access to the ticket presale, which begins on Wednesday, and a thirty-per-cent discount on most tickets. General ticket sales begin on Thursday. See the lineup » | | | | The Critics |  A Critic at Large Can’t We Come Up with Something Better Than Liberal Democracy? The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives. By Adam Gopnik |  On Television How Many Generations of “Katrina Babies” Are There? An HBO Max documentary, released before the seventeenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, looks at the storm’s reverberating effects on children in New Orleans. By Doreen St. Félix | |  Books Kathryn Scanlan’s Violent Compression In her latest work of fiction, “Kick the Latch,” Scanlan continues to make art about ordinary life by distorting it. By Leslie Jamison |  The Theatre Folly in the Park “As You Like It” brings music, high jinks, and community to Shakespeare’s sometimes resistant comedy. By Helen Shaw | | | | |  | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Ranking My Covid Testers Who was the best swabber? The guy who talked non-stop about his trip to Belize? The one with Albert Einstein hair? By Seth Reiss |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Much of Banksy’s œuvre: eight 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 |  Annals of a Warming Planet The Terrifying Choices Created by Wildfires Many Californians are confronting a series of confounding decisions—among them, whether they should fight or flee. By Ingfei Chen |  The New Yorker Live The New Yorker Live with Maggie Rogers and Questlove On Wednesday, subscribers get free digital access to our sold-out event in New York City. | | | | | | | | |
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