The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio

Plus: Masha Gessen on journalists and “moral clarity”; the Queer Liberation March; and lessons from “Crime and Punishment.” View in browser | Update your preferences Personal History Sheltering While Black For my daughters, the pandemic was a relief from race-related stress at school. Then George Floyd was killed. By Emily Bernard Dispatch The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio Last week, under renewed pressure from protesters, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.” By Hanif Abdurraqib Our Columnists Why Are Some Journalists Afraid of “Moral Clarity”? Until recently, ideas such as defunding the police fell outside of what news outlets found suitable to publish. Now those boundaries are being redrawn. By Masha Gessen Cultural Comment A Radical Challenger to New York City’s Pride March The traditional march is cancelled this year due to the pandemic. A smaller, scrappier newcomer is happening on Sunday. By Michael Schulman Video Dept. The Effort to Remove Land Mines from the Colombian Amazon The territory of the indigenous Siona people has been caught up in armed conflict for decades. By Camila Osorio Newsletters Sign Up for the Borowitz Report Newsletter News satire by Andy Borowitz, delivered to your in-box. Culture and More A Critic at Large The Lockdown Lessons of “Crime and Punishment” A college class weathering the pandemic finds Dostoyevsky’s savage inwardness and apocalyptic feverishness uncomfortably resonant. By David Denby The Current Cinema “Mr. Jones” Remembers When Stalin Weaponized Famine The horrors of the Holodomor, in which millions of Ukrainians starved, are dramatized, but not inflated, in Agnieszka Holland’s new film. By Anthony Lane Culture Desk The Talented Tweedy Family Sixty-plus episodes in, an Instagram series featuring the Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy is my favorite cultural production of the pandemic, hands down. By Peter C. Baker Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts A Day at the Church of White Guilt They partake of His blood (the mimosa) and His body (the avocado toast) in a holy eucharist of brunch. By Randall Otis and Josh Johnson Daily Cartoon Thursday, June 25th By Lisa Rothstein This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.