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# The New Yorker### The Outlandish Case Against James ComeyThe prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.”### The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s BrainSteven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on.### The Future, Made in ChinaBeijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.Help shape the future of *The New Yorker*.Share your thoughts by taking our survey »## The Critics### How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein EraThis year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir?### “The Samurai and the Prisoner” Fits a War Epic Into an Elegant Puzzle BoxIn Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s historical drama, a series of puzzling crimes at a besieged fortress yields even more confounding questions about faith, war, and leadership.### Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards”The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.### In “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Desire and Terror MeetJane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear.### “Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein WorldElizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny.### What Makes an Adaptation Good?