“I like to write and work on standup. That’s my favorite thing to do. It’s like a woodshop. It’s like doing Lego. It’s like a world of Lego to me,” Jerry Seinfeld says. nyer.cm/vhgW2jg

In J. J. Kandel’s short film “Sparring Partner,” the lunch-break banter of a flirtatious pair of co-workers, played by Cecily Strong and KeiLyn Durrel Jones, gives way to uncomfortable revelations. nyer.cm/40Mk5ql

“For all the film’s quietism regarding the particulars of secession and rebellion, ‘Civil War’ is a piece of propaganda,” Richard Brody writes. nyer.cm/h0DHxGz

On our Political Scene podcast, the Washington Roundtable discusses the decisive role that the youth vote will play in the Presidential election. Listen here. nyer.cm/npKB6vr

How questionable eBay lots led to a discovery of theft at the British Museum, seemingly perpetrated by a veteran curator. nyer.cm/oWNmmqw

The tennis coach Brad Gilbert has trained everyone from Agassi to Robin Williams to Coco Gauff. His latest pupils: the cast of Luca Guadagnino’s new movie. nyer.cm/RQPHuTL

Jim Simons, a mathematician who made billions on Wall Street, died yesterday, at the age of 86. Revisit D. T. Max’s story, from 2017, on the research center that Simons funded to help scientists mine data for the common good: nyer.cm/pXj79GT

First produced seven decades ago, the DSM groups conditions into families such as “anxiety disorders” and “personality disorders.” Now, its approach to categorization increasingly looks arbitrary and anachronistic, manvir singh writes. nyer.cm/AKkiLGZ

On May 7th, the engineer, producer, and musician Steve Albini died at his home in Chicago, where he has run a recording studio, Electrical Audio, since 1997. It’s almost impossible to quantify his impact on underground music. nyer.cm/HGkkzon

Steve Martin recalls his friendship with the late art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who “luxuriated in rare words.” nyer.cm/gKh1ccI

The binary views on recent protests fail to acknowledge an essential problem: Israel’s leadership “is prosecuting an unwinnable war that has overwhelmingly claimed the lives of women and children, while laying waste to their land,” Ruth Margalit writes. nyer.cm/vbWCD6q

Still unsure what to get your Mom for Mother’s Day? In New Yorker Humor, Hallie Bateman and Suzy Hopkins have a few ideas. See the rest: nyer.cm/0EHcH41

“The singling out of students may make it appear as though they are extreme and out of touch with the public when, in fact, they are giving expression to widely held sentiment,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes, of the campus protests. nyer.cm/f9uJS3V

The 20-year-old slime wunderkind Chase Kellebrew, the presiding genius at SoHo’s Sloomoo Institute, has created new products to appease the voracious appetites of fans—such as Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, and Christina Aguilera—who regard him as a master. nyer.cm/0rJU2pZ

This seeming diversion of a trial might lead to the first guilty verdict of a former President in American history, with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels as the implement who gets us there. “Who would have thought?” Naomi Fry writes. nyer.cm/NrkM3In

There is something to be said about the Drake-Kendrick Lamar matchup: unlike so many squabbles between artists, their feud manifests in song. “That’s as close to the good ol’ days as anyone’s bound to get in this lifetime,” Lauren Michele Jackson writes. nyer.cm/c5GL2cF

From The New Yorker Humor: If your favorite color is yellow, you always return your shopping cart. If it’s pink, your mom’s accountant still does your taxes. nyer.cm/GyIJnUx

Miranda July is “very precise in the way she speaks and in the way she thinks and the way she dresses,” the writer Sheila Heti, a close friend of July’s, said. Read a new Profile of the reflective and deliberate artist. nyer.cm/D4LQMdE

A cartoon by Zachary Kanin. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/Khk63gL

Prince wanted his autobiography to be, in part, a handbook for young black artists. “It should teach that what you create is yours,” he said. nyer.cm/Afe77wA