| |  A Reporter at Large How the Biggest Fraud in German History UnravelledThe tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence. By Ben Taub | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “The Florida Book-of-the-Month Club”The cover artist for this week’s issue, Barry Blitt, on what makes children’s books captivating, and the role of humor in exploring complex topics. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  Brave New World Dept. Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness? New computer systems aim to peer inside our heads—and to help us fix what they find there. By Dhruv Khullar |  The Control of Nature Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas. By Elizabeth Kolbert | |  Annals of Higher Education The End of the English Major Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened? By Nathan Heller |  Comment Sliding Toward a New Cold War Not since the Berlin Wall fell has the world been cleaved so deeply by the kind of conflict that John F. Kennedy called a “long, twilight struggle.” By Evan Osnos | | | | | Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction NewsletterBook recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. | | | | | The Critics |  Pop Music The Transcendence of Laraaji Much of New Age music exists somewhere between the intellectual avant-garde and wellness hooey. Laraaji shows that the genre’s best practitioners were truly radical. By Amanda Petrusich |  Books The Worlds of Italo Calvino Despite his reputation as a postmodernist, Calvino’s imagination was more in tune with pre-modern literary modes. By Merve Emre | |  On Television The Cathartic Pessimism of the “Party Down” Revival Since the show’s first two seasons, it has become harder to sustain the illusion that either Hollywood or the economy at large doles out its shrinking perks fairly. By Inkoo Kang |  The Current Cinema “Cocaine Bear” and the Problem of High-Concept Plots Like “Snakes on a Plane” and “We Bought a Zoo,” Elizabeth Banks’s film provides exactly what the title promises. Then what? By Anthony Lane | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “Snowy Day”“The only things he can see now are snow and barbed wire. There’s nothing left in the world but barbed wire.” By Lee Chang-dong | | | | | Humor and Games from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Twitter Check Marks, Updated How about Orange? (Trump and Trump-related impersonators only.) Or Blue Sweater/Glasses? (For @georgesantosreallyIswear and @georgewashingsantos.) By Bill Scheft |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle One with a site plan: twelve 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 Communications Watching Tucker Carlson for Work According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don’t know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.” By Clare Malone |  The New Yorker Interview Danielle Deadwyler’s Gravity-Shifting Intensity The multihyphenate discusses her role in “Till,” her approach to art, ego death, and the retrograde values of the Hollywood system. By Doreen St. Félix | | | | | | | | |
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