The New Yorker

From the daily newsletter: the Harris campaign’s plan for North Carolina; and the style of the season.

U-pick which of these cartoons is golden delicious.

The Republican strategist Sarah Longwell explains what she’s hearing in focus groups from swing-state voters, and those who’ve “flipped” between Democratic and Republican candidates.

“This’ll never work—you’re the drink of the summer and I’m an autumnal classic.”

Nearly two hundred of them are flown outside the U.N. headquarters: five letters.

Years after John McGahern became the center of a national censorship debate, his novel “The Pornographer” cast an impassive eye on death, sex, and patriarchal repression.

Also: First-person documentaries, Remi Wolf’s funky soul pop, the Met Opera’s new season, and more.

Apple TV+’s soi-disant succession drama may gesture at weighty themes, but it’s soapier—and often more fun—than its prestige counterparts.

Only around a million people live in Montana, but the state will likely determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.

We know that the fence-sitters in a few states will decide this election, but is there an obvious answer for how either candidate should try to appeal to them?