| |  Profiles How the Artist Kehinde Wiley Went from Picturing Power to Building ItHis portrait of Obama sparked a nationwide pilgrimage. Now he’s establishing an arts empire of his own. By Julian Lucas | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “New Tracks”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Ryo Takemasa, discusses fresh starts and how the setup of a workspace can fuel creativity. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop other covers from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Onward and Upward with the Arts Can “The Last of Us” Break the Curse of Bad Video-Game Adaptations? For decades, games’ stories have been lost in translation. Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin are charting a different path. By Alex Barasch |  On and Off the Avenue Hell on Two Wheels, Until the E-Bike’s Battery Runs Out In 2020, Americans bought more than twice as many electric bikes as electric cars. I test-drove a fleet of them and lived to tell the tale—and make recommendations. By Patricia Marx | |  A Reporter at Large Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver. By Luke Mogelson |  Comment What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that. By Amy Davidson Sorkin | | | | | The Critics |  A Critic at Large Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative? Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell. By Parul Sehgal |  The Theatre Denis Johnson and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Drinking Games Both Johnson’s “Des Moines” and Guirgis’s “Between Riverside and Crazy” feature alcohol as a spur and a conduit to otherwise fugitive knowledge. By Vinson Cunningham | |  On Television How “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Ditches the Clichés of the Female Midlife Crisis The freshest observations—and emotional wallops—in the adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel center on the accrual of the sometimes uncategorizable breaches that women are expected to quietly endure. By Inkoo Kang |  The Current Cinema Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” Goes Nowhere, in a Mad Rush The “La La Land” director’s over-the-top paean to silent Hollywood, starring Margot Robbie as a hopeful actress and Brad Pitt as an affable superstar, amounts to a frenzied scrapbook. By Anthony Lane | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Notions of the Sacred”“I thought of the face of the Virgin Mother in scenes of the Annunciation, and had a new understanding of her inward gaze, at once present and far away.” By Ayşegül Savaş | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs And the Lord Said, “You’ve Got a Time-Out, Mister” Was banishment from the Garden too tough a punishment for Adam and Eve? And other parental conundrums. By Simon Rich |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Home of some Bosches: five letters. By Will Nediger |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Liz Maynes-Aminzade | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  2022 in Review An Evocative Year in New Yorker Illustrations A collection of some of the most striking images of 2022. By Rachel Riederer |  Letter from the Southwest The Water Wranglers of the West Are Struggling to Save the Colorado River Farmers, bureaucrats, and water negotiators converged on Caesars Palace to fight over the future of the drought-stricken Southwest. By Rachel Monroe | | | | | | | | |
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