On the Spurs suddenly going cold in the second half, the Knicks erasing a twenty-nine-point deficit, and the miracle of OG Anunoby.
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- When Heidi Blake met Andrew Tate at a cigar lounge in Bucharest, he insisted that the current prosecution against him was baseless. But Blake put together an account from leaked files and more than a dozen alleged victims that tells a different story.
- Barney Greengrass, the Upper West Side’s beloved smoked-fish emporium, is peddling Knicks T-shirts to customers. “They have been selling like, well, hot latkes,” David Remnick writes.
- The influencer rose to fame by spreading misogyny and male rage. British, Romanian, and American officials may have ignored acts of exploitation and violence.
- Switzerland’s population is 9.1 million. This month, they’re voting whether to cap it at 10 million people until 2050—a more or less unprecedented measure.
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- Can the Knicks regain momentum in Game 4? Join us after the final buzzer tonight on newyorker.substack.com for a live conversation with David Remnick, Vinson Cunningham, and Louisa Thomas.
- A cartoon by Sarah Akinterinwa. See all the cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Zm9GjE
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- Millie von Platen illustrates the rituals of New York Knicks fans as the team faces off against the San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 N.B.A. Finals. See more superstitious behaviors of Knicks superfans: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/a8myAB
- On June 14th, Switzerland will vote on whether to become the only country in the world to officially cap its population, with a limit of 10 million people until 2050. The initiative could upend the nation’s economy and rupture ties with the European Union. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/E69c-6
- His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the retreads yield diminishing returns.
- Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Irving Berlin, and Groucho Marx were just some of the many known patrons of Barney Greengrass, a smoked-fish emporium in the Upper West Side. Now the beloved eatery is offering Knicks merchandise to go with its smoked sturgeon.
