| |  Letter from India When the Hindu Right Came for BollywoodThe industry used to honor India’s secular ideals—but, since the rise of Narendra Modi, it’s been flooded with stock Hindu heroes and Muslim villains. By Samanth Subramanian | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “Lockdown”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Chris Ware, discusses using his daily life in his drawings, and his daughter’s experience with school-shooting drills. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Our Local Correspondents The Science and Emotions of Lincoln Center’s New Sound In renovating Geffen Hall, the acoustics came first. By Rivka Galchen |  Portfolio Waiting for the School Bus in Uvalde After a horrific shooting, a morning ritual takes on new meaning. | |  A Reporter at Large A Post-Roe Abortion Underground How a multigenerational network of activists is getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans. By Stephania Taladrid |  Comment The War in Ukraine Launches a New Battle for the Russian Soul The last time people were writing in Russian so urgently was in the eighties, when Soviet citizens were confronted with the terror of the Stalinist past. By Masha Gessen | | | | | The Critics |  The Current Cinema The Persuasive Potency of “Decision to Leave” With a restraint absent from Park Chan-wook’s early work, this tale of a cop obsessed with a female suspect is a true romance that verges on the tragic. By Anthony Lane |  Books Lydia Millet’s Post-Human Prose In “Dinosaurs,” Millet once again rejects the small, familiar world of the individual. Her subject is loss on a planetary scale. By Katy Waldman | |  The Theatre Tom Stoppard Resurrects the Past in “Leopoldstadt” A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright’s own ghosts. By Helen Shaw |  Musical Events The Bel-Canto Brilliance of Lawrence Brownlee The singer’s performance in Rossini’s “Otello,” at Opera Philadelphia, was a tour de force of tenor genius. By Alex Ross | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Come Softly to Me”“Now we are dead. Don’t ask us how we are dead, we are just dead.” By David Gilbert | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Helicopter Parents Are Last Year’s Model Aggressive but not really effective at cleaning up your kid’s messes? You’re a Leaf-Blower Parent. Quiet but sanctimonious? Tesla Parent, for sure. By Jay Martel |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle “Deathtrap” playwright Levin: three 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 | | | | | Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Movie Club NewsletterReviews of the current cinema, plus recommendations for classics and underrated treasures available on streaming services, every Friday. | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  Daily Comment The Long March Toward a National Latino Museum A community whose role in U.S. history has been too often ignored is telling its story at the Smithsonian. By Graciela Mochkofsky |  Cultural Comment Annie Ernaux’s Justly Deserved Nobel Her win marks the ascendancy of the memoir as the leading genre of our time. By Adam Gopnik | | | | | | | | |
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