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The Crossword: Monday, August 4, 2025
What a vole is but a mole is not: six letters.
By Anna Shechtman
Laugh Lines No. 31: Public Transit
Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?
By The New Yorker
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.
By Alex Ross
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.
By Adam Gopnik
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.
By Dan Chiasson
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).
By Liana Finck
Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty”
The art and politics of representation.
By Françoise MoulyArt by Amy Sherald
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.
By Elizabeth Kolbert