Maraú Península: Forty-five Years of “Mad Max”

In today’s newsletter, an interview with the “Mad Max” director, and then:
• Donald Trump’s abortion problem
• The Kafkaesque journey of the Oakland A’s
• “Here There Are Blueberries,” reviewed

The New Yorker Interview

What George Miller Has Learned in Forty-five Years of Making “Mad Max” Movies

In a series of conversations, the director of “Furiosa” explains why silent films have the best action, audiences are seldom wrong, and his wife is always right.

By Burkhard Bilger

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From the News Desk

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Comment

Donald Trump’s Abortion Problem at the Polls

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states—and they could do so again in November.

By Margaret Talbot

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Isn’t Going Away

David Remnick asks R.F.K., Jr., where his run for President and his beliefs are coming from. Plus, Miranda July’s new novel explores marriage, desire, and perimenopause.

With David Remnick

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Editor’s Pick

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The Sporting Scene

The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

As the team’s current owner tries to move the franchise to Las Vegas, its situation has become hopeless and absurd.

By Louisa Thomas

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Culture Dept.

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The Theatre

The Chilling Truth Pictured in “Here There Are Blueberries”

Moisés Kaufman’s play dramatizes the discovery of a photo album of Nazis at leisure at Auschwitz, and the reckoning it provoked.

By Vinson Cunningham

The Food Scene

The Glittering Pleasure of a Perfect Raw Bar

Penny, in the East Village, has a polished, understated swagger that somehow makes the oysters taste even better.

By Helen Rosner

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Poems

“Radishes”

“Did something in your cultivation change, / or does sensation wane with age?”

By Ange Mlinko

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Poems

“Theology”

“I thought gravity was a law, which meant it could be broken.”

By Ocean Vuong

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Fun & Games Dept.

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Shouts & Murmurs

Neighborly Cannibals

I asked Kayleigh if she’s ever experimented with nontraditional Lunchables, and she just rolled her eyes and said, “Geez, Mom. Get a life. Or an ear that hasn’t been treated with pesticides.”

By Paul Rudnick

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P.S. Malcolm X was born on this day in 1925. “Malcolm moved ebulliently along Harlem’s teeming sidewalks, a rangily tall, overcoated figure, talking with everybody—one of Harlem’s own now returned, purged, to prophesy to his people,” Marshall Frady wrote, in 1992. “There was, indeed, with his glinting eyeglasses, a certain priestly quality about him.”