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This Week’s Cover
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This week’s magazine is the Body Issue. For the cover, the cartoonist Edward Steed drew a foot, a body part that seldom gets our full attention. “For me, summer only really begins when I can take my shoes off and feel the grass between my toes,” Steed said.
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The Body Issue
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A Reporter at Large
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including UsLone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
By Burkhard Bilger
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Letter from Austria
Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?An Austrian court pieces together the mysterious circumstances of a couple’s disastrous hike.
By William Finnegan
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Brave New World Dept.
The Billionaires’ Vagina ClubWith her motto, “Sexual health is health,” Dr. Sally Greenwald aims to optimize orgasms for the women of Silicon Valley.
By Melanie Thernstrom
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Annals of Technology
Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed?Neo and a dozen other robots with human forms are scheduled to hit the market. Experts are nervous.
By Stephen Witt
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The Talk of the Town
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On the Streets
Herding the Fro-Yo Sheep This summer, every trendy dessert joint has a mile-long line of transplants and tourists. One New Yorker is protesting in his own way—by “baa”-ing at them.
By David Kamp
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Semiquincentennial Dept.
The Natural Memory of Kabir Sehgal For his new album, “Stars and Static 2026,” the fourteen-time Grammy winner recorded sounds from across the country. Did it change how he thinks about America?
By Dan Greene
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Ways of Seeing
Bruce Nauman Isn’t Bound by the Rules At a gallery in Tribeca, the artist talked bald spots with Eric Fischl and walked through his quickie exhibition “No Mistakes,” 3-D videos of him drawing with his eyes closed.
By Thessaly La Force
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Postscript
Postscript: Mark Singer In a 1997 Profile for the magazine, he looked for Donald Trump’s soul. Where it should have been he found—nothing.
By Ian Frazier
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The Critics
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The Art World
The Met’s “Costume Art” Makes a Case for Fashion From its new galleries off the museum’s Great Hall, the Costume Institute seeks to put clothing at the center of art history.
By Rachel Syme
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Pop Music
At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn After the Brooklyn Mirage—a popular but troubled music venue—was torn down, a glitzy Ibiza institution took its place.
By Kelefa Sanneh
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Books
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.
By Dhruv Khullar
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A Critic at Large
What Happened to Your Face? How the human countenance became something to study, edit, optimize, and scan.
By Cal Revely-Calder
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More Top Stories
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Comment
Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s “Regime Change” is packed with news about the Trump White House that will stay news.
By David Remnick
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Infinite Scroll
The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.
By Kyle Chayka
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Cartoon by Jonathan Rosen
“Billy, stop playing with your food!”
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