Reading The New Yorker each week is a lot of responsibility, so here is our completely biased guide about what to check out.

This week is the Anniversary Issue. There are a lot of great things to read, and you'll have two weeks to read them. Depending on how fast you go through the New Yorker, that's good or bad news.

Anyway, we're excited because three of our favorite New Yorker contributors have pieces in this issue. Alice Munro has a short story and Susan Orlean has an investigation about umbrella technology. We're betting Alice Munro will say something poignant about Canadian angst and Susan Orlean will change the way you think about umbrellas. Prepare to have your mind blown.

But more exciting than those two chicks is David Grann writing about true crime in Poland. That may not seem interesting, but this guy can make water systems interesting. In fact, he has.

Hendrick Hertzberg talks about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the comment piece. Advice: wait until Wednesday to read it. His rhetoric has the power to control minds.