The marriage of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker—who co-founded the seminal indie-rock band Low—was one of the most extraordinary collaborations in rock. Now, a year and a half after Parker’s death, Sparhawk is back on the road. nyer.cm/OfNftcv

A forthcoming collection of cartoons from 2020 capture the silliness, sexiness, despondence, and hope that artists across cultures experienced during the transformative time period. See the illustrated portraits of the pandemic: nyer.cm/JEHCyuB

Nearly every hockey fan and player will tell you that, when the playoffs arrive, you have to go with the goalie who’s on a roll. Are they right? nyer.cm/321nxsf

In a new Weekend Essay, John Paul Brammer considers rattlesnake hunting, masculinity, and growing up gay in Oklahoma. nyer.cm/1fof3RG

A cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan. #NewYorkerCartoons
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A cartoon by Roland High, from 2022. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/LXjJ6Yk

In New Yorker Humor, Lawrence Lindell illustrates the social constraints of having a child. Read the full comic: nyer.cm/cD4wQN9

“Was Kelly someone with a firsthand understanding of the dangers of the border, or an elderly man with a dangerously overheated imagination?” Rachel Monroe writes, of an Arizona rancher who was accused of killing a migrant. nyer.cm/0R4XmIU

In oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday, Donald Trump’s lawyer tested the boundaries of a truly imperial Presidency, Susan Glasser writes. nyer.cm/hW23SPn

Recently, the Biden White House has been on a remarkable roll when it comes to the environment: first with a new rule on cleaning up power plants, and then with a little-noticed ruling requiring builders to comply with newer energy codes. nyer.cm/0WmhLiP

“Let the younger folks medicate with their Adderall to stay up and their benzos to come down,” Gary Shteyngart writes. “In the meantime, I would reach for my gin and my vermouth and one V-shaped glass to contain them all.” nyer.cm/lT3aDWL

On our Political Scene podcast, Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss Donald Trump’s argument for Presidential immunity with the former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal. nyer.cm/WJ0qeee

Marjorie Taylor Greene is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy? nyer.cm/HJbRWqs

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a client come to us and say, ‘I wish I didn’t do baby-led weaning,’ ” a pediatric dietitian said. “But we’ve had thousands say, ‘I wish I had done it, and not what I did.’ ” nyer.cm/VMMQLFa

“The conservative Justices’ perspective is clear: holding accountable the person who is President is far less important than protecting the functioning of the Presidency,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. nyer.cm/7lvVGzr

In “Stereophonic” and “Cabaret,” both on Broadway now, the audience is plunged into a louche, long-ago decade, in which drug-fuelled, antic musicians make art as though the world were ending. nyer.cm/yQz0V9c

From 2008: What was real about the realest actor of them all? Claudia Roth Pierpont on Marlon Brando’s dilemmas and his depths. nyer.cm/7vRjlRa

In The New Yorker Humor, a woman finds herself stuck in rom-com purgatory.
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Teresita Fernández’s latest exhibition, Kamasi Washington at Beacon Theatre, a new Broadway musical based on S. E. Hinton’s 1967 novel, “The Outsiders,” and other recommendations of what to do this week. nyer.cm/80qiS55

How a massive painting by Charles Addams wended its way from a Hamptons hotel to a university library. nyer.cm/16RrUSm