18:00 What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail - The President of Venezuela has reportedly been stuck in a unit for high-profile inmates, known for housing rappers and tech moguls, while his country forms an uneasy relationship with Trump. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 If You Ask Me: Save the Rich White Women - The plots of these shows usually center on a murder, which occurs not so much to end a human life as to inconvenience our star, who must postpone a brunch or a media event to conceal an inconvenient corpse. (www.newyorker.com)
03:53 The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke - Several recent books with unreliable narrators give children the rare pleasure of feeling smarter than the story. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup? - Soccer fans and host-city politicians are up in arms about the prices that FIFA is charging for tickets under its new sales system. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 Daphne Rubin-Vega Comes Home - Strolling through Hell’s Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swaggering Mr. Zero in “The Adding Machine,” Off Broadway. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson - Antoine Fuqua has built a career on movies with irresistible heroes. Now he’s telling the story of the King of Pop. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People - Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, and any hint of vulnerability. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment - In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 When Your Digital Life Vanishes - A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Popes That Trump Might’ve Liked - The President thinks Pope Leo XIV is a wuss. Meet some real tough-guy Pontiffs who might have fit the bill. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Anatomy of a Failure - From spray-on condoms to radioactive wrinkle cream, “Flops?!,” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, puts terrible inventions in the spotlight. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Apprenticeship of Linda McMahon - The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 “Spring Comes and I Finally Throw Out the Last Flowers I Bought You,” by Ariel Francisco - “It’s been weeks. / It’s been months. It’s been seasons.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 In Defense of the Moderate - In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master - Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 When Soul Food Met Daniel Boulud - The Harlem franchise Charles Pan-Fried Chicken invited a bunch of chefs to take over for the weekend. Up next: oxtails from Lana Lagomarsini. (www.newyorker.com)