| |  Profiles Emma Thompson’s Third ActThe actress and screenwriter takes on a musical. By John Lahr | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “Neighborhood’s Finest”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Roz Chast, discusses finding humor in everyday ephemera and what she likes to order at her favorite local diner. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  American Chronicles The Case Against the Twitter Apology Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle. By Jill Lepore |  A Reporter at Large A Murder Roils the Cycling World In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt. By Ian Parker | |  Onward and Upward with the Arts A Polymath Film Composer Known as “the Third Coen Brother” Carter Burwell’s spare, haunting scores make audiences uncomfortable. By David Owen |  Comment The Rise of Political Violence It would be irresponsible to draw too direct a line between the rhetorical climate and any individual’s actions. But, obviously, none of it bodes well. By Andrew Marantz | | | | | The Critics |  Books Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward? They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways. By David Treuer |  Books What the Suzuki Method Really Taught A new biography of the program’s creator argues that reducing it to a system of music instruction misses its underlying point about human potential. By Adam Gopnik | |  Pop Music The Boundless Optimism of the Spice Girls A twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of “Spiceworld” reminds us how the band encapsulated—possibly even dictated—the grinning innocence of the late nineties. By Amanda Petrusich |  Books Should Ovid’s Metamorphoses Have a Trigger Warning? Stephanie McCarter’s new translation grapples intelligently with issues of sexual violence that have often been obscured by euphemism. By Daniel Mendelsohn | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Returns”“She was breathless, as though she had no idea where to start among all the things we had to talk about.” By Annie Ernaux | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Who’s Afraid of Going to the Theatre? This production contains strobe lights, nude people whom you don’t want to see nude, and a didactic speech about Lenin. By Jesse Eisenberg |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Lightly Challenging Puzzle Country that’s home to the Nazca Lines: four letters. By Patrick Berry |  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 Recommends NewsletterDiscover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  The New Yorker Interview How Weird Al Spoofed Himself In a new bio-pic, the singer applies his talents to a surprising subject: his own rise to stardom. By Sarah Larson |  Infinite Scroll A Twitter Employee’s Account of Surviving Layoff Day “I actually wanted to get laid off.” By Kyle Chayka | | | | | | | | |
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