“It’s amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime,” said Jack Hunter, the artist behind next week’s cover, “Moment of Joy.” Hunter, who originally submitted his image, unsolicited, to a Tumblr, continued, “This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate.”
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Mina Kaneko is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
The Perfect Wife
How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera
Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops.
Onward and Upward with the Arts
Radu Jude, the Bard of Bucharest
The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films.
A Grandmother’s Life in Photos
As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors.
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.
How the Creator of “Beef” Got from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare
Lee Sung Jin on tailoring dialogue to Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton, the differences between Korean and American élites, and making TV in an age of “all-gas, no-brakes capitalism.”
Roz Chast’s “City Beasts”
Where the wild things are.
The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose
Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death
The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son.