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"So the fact that I was saved, I want to pass that on and make that better, for, for the next generation," Kirk said. For going the distance for others, Peter Kirk is our New Yorker of the Week.

The article, which appeared in the Women’s Issue, asks what happens when three women leave élite careers to stay home with their children.

Also: the skateboarding play “Bowl EP,” the off-kilter divas Grace Jones and Janelle Monae; Jamie Lee Curtis’s early “Love Letters,” and more.

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R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck will be releasing albums soon with the new supergroup Drink the Sea and U.K. singer/songwriter Luke Haines.

Nicolas Niarchos shares reporting from a civil war in which Sudan’s Black minority is caught between warring factions led by members of the country’s Arab majority.

On The New Yorker Radio Hour, an autism researcher discusses Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause of the condition, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation.

The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives.

From the daily newsletter: a report from Butterworth’s. Plus: Miley Cyrus finds her voice.

On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the writer discusses how his grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control.

Françoise Mouly speaks with the artist Kadir Nelson about his cover for the June 2, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.