| |  Annals of Politics The Democrats’ Midterm ChallengeIn competitive races across the country, candidates are downplaying ideology in favor of kitchen-table issues. By Nicholas Lemann | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “Old Haunts”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Sergio García Sánchez, discussed Día de Todos los Santos and taking inspiration from the Old Masters. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  The Sporting Scene Toto Wolff, the Compulsive Perfectionist Behind Mercedes’s Formula 1 Team Mercedes drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, dominated the world’s fastest motorsport for a decade. Now they can’t win a race. By Sam Knight |  A Reporter at Large Will Sanctions Against Russia End the War in Ukraine? D.C. bureaucrats have worked stealthily with allies to open a financial front against Putin. By Sheelah Kolhatkar | |  Onward and Upward with the Arts A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh? By David Remnick |  Comment Xi Jinping’s Historic Bid at the Communist Party Congress In his efforts to escape the “cycles of order and disorder, rise and fall” that China’s emperors could not, is Xi himself slipping into them? By Evan Osnos | | | | | The Critics |  Books How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality. By Adam Gopnik |  The Art World Two Views of New York, from Edward Hopper and a Historic Black Gallery Museum shows capture the great realist painter’s vision of the city and, at Just Above Midtown, the work of artists of color from the seventies and eighties. By Hilton Als | |  The Theatre “Topdog/Underdog,” Back on Broadway, Still Has Its Eye on the American Long Con The director Kenny Leon puts a realistic spin on Suzan-Lori Parks’s allegorical tour de force. By Helen Shaw |  Pop Music Will Sheff’s Lament for a Starry-Eyed Rock-and-Roll Dream On “Nothing Special,” the artist, now forty-six, surveys the ecstasies and the devastations of getting older and giving up on some things. By Amanda Petrusich | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction Narrowing Valley“The man and wife and kids in the Winnebago are moving west. The story moves west with them. All stories around here move west.” By Jonathan Lethem | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Other Things It Takes a Village to Accomplish Need a large baby lifted? Trying to feed a hungry giant? By Sarah Hutto |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Language of Bano Qudsia’s novel “Raja Gidh”: four letters. By Will Nediger |  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 |  The New Yorker Interview Prue Leith Can’t Resist The judge of “The Great British Bake Off” offers thoughts on British food and British politics, plus a word about the “Mexican Week” episode. By Helen Rosner |  Postscript Remembering Peter Schjeldahl, a Consummate Critic A voice is what he always had: distinct, clear, funny. A poet’s voice—epigrammatic, nothing wasted. By David Remnick | | | | | | | | |
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