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July 2, 2018

The New Yorker cover for July 2, 2018: “Yearning to Breathe Free,” by Barry Blitt.

“Yearning to Breathe Free,” by Barry Blitt.

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a reporter at large

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

Brooke Jarvis writes about whether a global icon of extinction could still be alive.

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letter from berkeley

How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus

Bo Burnham’s Age of Anxiety

Michael Schulman