| |  The New Yorker Interview Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big ScreenIn the playwright’s début film, “Janet Planet,” Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter—and everyone else—over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires. By Helen Shaw | | | | |  | If you know someone who would enjoy the daily, please share it. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up. | | | | From the News Desk | The Sporting Scene Caitlin Clark’s New RealityClark isn’t yet the best player the W.N.B.A. has ever seen. What can she learn from the player who is? By Louisa Thomas | | Here To There Dept. A Journey to the Center of New York City’s Congestion ZoneAfter Governor Kathy Hochul’s flip-flop on congestion pricing, a cop reconsiders his retirement while inching his Lexus through snarled-up traffic on the F.D.R. By Ben McGrath | | The New Yorker Radio Hour Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.” With David Remnick | | | | | Dept. of Diversions |  Listening Booth Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”The artist has often treated pop music as a game—something to play with so she doesn’t get bored, and something that reliably creates winners and losers. By Kelefa Sanneh | | | | | Photo Booth Lyle Ashton Harris’s Scrapbooks of the SelfThe artist’s knotty, intimate archive is on display at the Queens Museum. By Vince Aletti | | | | | | | Culture Dept. |  Fiction “Chicago on the Seine” Occasionally, I had to send a body home. What I’d noticed was that death abroad was more common on package tours. By Camille Bordas |  This Week in Fiction Camille Bordas on Giving Ghosts the Attention They Require The author discusses her story “Chicago on the Seine.” By Willing Davidson | |  Poems “This Living” “It’s going to happen any day now.” By Amber Tamblyn |  Poems “The Age of Miracle Weapons” “There was a protest outside Thomas Jefferson.” By D. Nurkse | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. | Shouts & Murmurs God Explains the Rules of His New Board GameFirst, choose a playing piece. One might be a “human being” named “Elon Musk,” which seems good, since it’s really powerful, but everyone thinks it’s an unfunny “fascist-adjacent dork.” By Teddy Wayne | | | | |  | Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play our trivia game » | | | | | P.S. “It was almost universally felt that his malice was the underside of his love of sunshine and good people; his rage has as much excited life to it as his celebration of decency and loyalty,” David Denby writes, of Charles Dickens, whose works the New Yorker writer had decided to reread after decades. Today, on the anniversary of Dickens’s death, why not follow Denby’s example? Immerse yourself in the novelist’s extravagant worlds, for “no one gives greater pleasure.” 📖 | | | | | | | |
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