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Funny drawings from this week's magazine.

Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.

Marlon James's new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

When the rapper Fenix Flexin débuted a new accent on his single "Rubberz," he stumbled into a century-old fight over musical fraudulence.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

Lucha-libre folk hero who wore a silver mask: seven letters.

Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.

In the new film "Coyote vs. Acme," starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up. Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike.

The sound artist spent thirteen years playing guitar alongside singing whales in British Columbia. Now he's releasing their collaboration, on "Orcas' Greatest Hits."

More than a century after its incendiary début, "Woman with a Hat" remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.