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The Crossword: Monday, August 4, 2025

What a vole is but a mole is not: six letters.

Laugh Lines No. 31: Public Transit

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

There Is More to French Opera Than “Carmen” and “Faust”

The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age.

A Vaccination Parable

You’ve got to read the literature!

The Engines and Empires of New York City Gambling

As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime.

How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility

Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

Letters from Our Readers

Readers respond to Sarah Beckwith’s essay about being raped, Lauren Collins’s article about El Mordjene, and Paige Williams’s piece about Green-Wood Cemetery.

New Coins in the Crypto Reserve

Forget gold. Time to stock up on Eggcoin (very valuable) and Scamcoin (not a scam).

Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”

The art and politics of representation.

The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.