The 8.28.22 Issue

Highlights

Can Coco Gauff the Tennis Prodigy Become a Tennis Legend?
Since Coco Gauff went pro at 14, she has played under the weight of high expectations. Now 18, she has her own measures for greatness.
By Susan Dominus
CreditArielle Bobb-Willis for The New York Times
How a Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution
The untold story of Jones Day’s push to move the American government and courts to the right.
By David Enrich
CreditPhoto illustration by Cristiana Couceiro
Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines
After decades on the margins, the 74-year-old Chilean sculptor and poet has improbably become one of this year’s most acclaimed.
By Carina del Valle Schorske
CreditStefan Ruiz for The New York Times
The Ethicist
Is It OK That My Co-Worker Keeps Her Anti-Abortion Views on the Down Low?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on withholding the truth when it may hurt you professionally.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
CreditIllustration by Tomi Um

Behold the Fruit Sandwich
In this Japanese treat, ripe, seasonal gems are enrobed in cream and nestled between slices of milk bread.
By Ligaya Mishan
CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas.
Eat
BeReal Captures Our Nostalgia for a Time When Social Media Was Boring
The app can’t make people be ‘authentic’ online. But it can remind us of an era when being online felt very different.
By Sophie Haigney
CreditPhoto illustration by E S Kibele Yarman
Screenland
Poem: Lipstick Elegy
This poem explores all the distances between mothers and their children, the frayed seams between countries and cultures.
By Paul Tran and Victoria Chang
CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
Poem
Judge John Hodgman on Taking the Chargers
A family disagrees on whether the electronic accessory should be communal or not.
By John Hodgman
CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
Judge John Hodgman