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The 7.23.23 Issue

Highlights

  1. The Vanishing Family

    They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age. This is the story of what it’s like to live with those odds.

     By Robert Kolker

    CreditPhoto illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban

  2. My Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise

    The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway?

     By Caity Weaver

    CreditIllustration by Kelsey Dake

  3. Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth

    Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?

     By Jon Gertner

    CreditIllustration by Erik Carter

  1. My Salary Is Too High. Is It Wrong to Stay in My Job?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what makes fair compensation.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  2. Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality

    “Everything that you think is solid,” says the celebrated writer, “is actually fleeting and ephemeral.”

     

    CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times
    Talk

  3. The Sandwich Southerners Wait for All Year

    A lush tomato, eaten in peak summer, is meant to be pined over.

     By Eric Kim

    CreditChris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Heather Greene.
    Eat

  4. A Celebrity Lesbian Romance Changed My Life. (Even if It Never Happened.)

    Social media is rife with fans who believe their fave is secretly queer — and there’s liberation in their fanciful theories.

     By Emmeline Clein

    CreditIllustration by Melek Zertal
    Letter of Recommendation

  5. ‘Break Point’ Is the Best Way to See the Full Psychodrama of Tennis

    The Netflix docuseries gets the highs and lows of the pro circuit right.

     By Jake Nevins

    CreditPhoto illustration by Mark Harris
    Screenland

  1. Judge John Hodgman on What to Call a Subway Line

    A native New Yorker struggles with her boyfriend’s choice to refer to them by their colors.

     By John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy
    Judge John Hodgman

  2. Poem: The Desert

    Brandon Shimoda wrote this short poem after encountering a lost migrant in the Arizona desert.

     By Brandon Shimoda and Anne Boyer

    CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman
    Poem

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