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05.27.18 Issue

Highlights

  1. Feature

    Blood Will Tell, Part 1: Who Killed Mickey Bryan?

    When a fourth-grade teacher was murdered in 1985, her husband, the beloved high school principal, was arrested for the crime. Could he have done it?

     By Pamela Colloff

    Joe Bryan in January.
    CreditDan Winters for The New York Times
  2. Feature

    The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump

    Flacks in this White House press office are getting enormous exposure — but potentially at a long-term cost to their credibility.

     By Mark Leibovich

    CreditPhoto illustration by Christian Northeast. Source photographs: Getty Images.
  3. Feature

    How Boots Riley Infiltrated Hollywood

    The cult indie rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his biting new film ‘Sorry to Bother You.’

     By Jonah Weiner

    Boots Riley at Little Bistro in Oakland, Calif., in April
    CreditIlona Szwarc for The New York Times
  4. On Photography

    What Does It Mean to Look at This?

    Images of violence can desensitize us, but they can also remind us of our common bond.

     By Teju Cole

    ‘‘Neighbors watch as dead bodies are burned in the streets of Estelí, 1979.’’
    CreditSusan Meiselas/Magnum Photos

  1. News of an ‘Outrage’ Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different

    Now it’s a lodestar amid a mess of bad news, pointing people toward a simple dynamic: Not only did something happen, but also someone is mad about it.

     By ZZ Packer

    CreditPhoto illustration by Derek Brahney
    First Words

  2. Letter of Recommendation: Drinking at Lunch

    A pleasant protest against the tyranny of workplace productivity.

     By Adam Sternbergh

    CreditWilliam Mebane for The New York Times
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. The Crispy Leftovers as the Main Course

    Pasta tahdig combines the best of Italian and Iranian cooking.

     By Samin Nosrat

    Perfectly seasoned, perfectly sauced.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times
    Eat

  4. Should I Go to a College I’ve Been Admitted to as a Legacy?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on inequality in college admissions, inequality in parents’ wills and more.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditTomi Um
    The Ethicist

  5. New Sentences: From Lydia Kiesling’s ‘What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like?’

    This is what metaphors do: use familiar things to explain unfamiliar ones.

     By Sam Anderson

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    New Sentences

  1. Poem: Tamir Rice

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     By Sean Thomas Dougherty

    Credit
    Poem

  2. Judge John Hodgman on Turtle Tomatoes

    What do we owe to animals who accidentally improve our gardens?

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

  3. How to Collect Seashells

    Prime your eyes — have a search image in mind. Consult a tide chart.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  4. Hiro Murai Doesn’t Want to Get on a Soapbox

    The “Atlanta” director on “This Is America,” surrealism and horror.

     Interview by Molly Lambert

    Hiro Murai.
    CreditJessica Chou for The New York Times
    Talk

  5. Behind the Cover: Blood Will Tell

    A new video series goes inside the process for creating the covers of The New York Times Magazine. This week, was Joe Bryan wrongfully imprisoned for the past 30 years because of faulty forensic science?

     

    CreditDan Winters for The New York Times
    Issue 5.27.18

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