“Macau is risky, it seems, for everyone who comes in contact with the place.”

Evan Osnos on the many (law)suits of Sheldon Adelson: http://nyr.kr/14tR8Ch

Photograph by Jerome Favre/Bloomberg/Getty.

In this week’s issue, Adam Green profiles theatrical pickpocket Apollo Robbins. Robbins tells Green: “A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I’m trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions. My goal isn’t to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality.” http://nyr.kr/UKfy6A

Photograph by Martin Schoeller.

In This Week’s Issue

Jeffrey Toobin (Comment) on the Supreme Court’s contempt for Congress; Evan Osnos on why Las Vegas is moving to Macau; Fiction from Jonathan Lethem: “The Porn Critic”; Elizabeth Kolbert on the debate over whether procreation is immoral; Shouts & Murmurs from Paul Rudnick; and more.