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Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 28th
“Quick! Somebody get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter!”
By Jason Adam Katzenstein
Annals of Law
A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy
Since the Young Thug trial, Brian Steel has modelled for the rapper’s fashion brand and had a Drake song named after him. Sean Combs took note.
By Charles Bethea
Books
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
By Lauren Michele Jackson
The Pictures
Cinema Was Claude Lelouch’s Nanny
The eighty-seven-year-old French director, in town for a rerelease of “A Man and a Woman,” his swinging-sixties “make-out movie,” ponders what he believes will be his final film.
By Bruce Handy
The Lede
A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.
By Dhruv Khullar
Books
When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston instead.
By Kathryn Schulz
The Theatre
Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems
Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.
By Helen Shaw
Laugh Lines
Laugh Lines No. 17: The Circus
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
By The New Yorker
American Chronicles
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump
Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace.
By Jill Lepore
Pop Music
The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl
The country singer, on her first headlining tour, plays achy-breaky songs about love and its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes.
By Kelefa Sanneh
Profiles
Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”
The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.
By Jelani Cobb
