The week's best photojournalism
In some of the week's most striking images, a whale washes up on a New York beach, a kite festival gets underway in France, and more













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Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.
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Elon Musk retires from politics | May 29 editorial cartoons
Cartoons Thursday's political cartoons include SpaceX, One Big Beautiful Bill, couples therapy for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and a cheaper U.S. penny made in China.
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Things in Nature Merely Grow: memoir of 'harsh beauty' after loss
The Week Recommends Chinese-American novelist Yiyun Li's 'devastating' memoir explores the deaths of her two sons
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Sirens: entertaining satire on the lives of the ultra-wealthy stars Julianne Moore
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