Escaping Manhattan During the Blackout of 2019

Dinners on the house, long lines for hot dogs, and lots of weed. Also: Is Tom Steyer the Democrats’ billionaire for the people? View in browser | Update your preferences Our Local Correspondents Escaping Manhattan During the Blackout of 2019 Dinners on the house, long lines for hot dogs and falafels, and lots of weed being smoked, after a power failure darkened a long swath of the borough’s West Side. By Vinson Cunningham Our Columnists Tom Steyer, the Democrats’ Billionaire for the People? Steyer’s candidacy in the 2020 Presidential race rests on an argument that the benevolent rich can be relied upon as the benefactors of the working class. By Osita Nwanevu Comment The Battle for Health Care The latest Republican effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act appears likely to reach the Supreme Court in the heat of the 2020 Presidential race. By Amy Davidson Sorkin More in News and Culture The New Yorker Interview Going Home with Wendell Berry The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America. By Amanda Petrusich Annals of Gastronomy The Ten Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far In the digital age, cookbooks have reinvented themselves. Here are the best of the past twenty years. By Helen Rosner News Desk The New R. Kelly Indictments Are an Indictment of the Music Industry The documents detail a criminal enterprise designed to promote the singer’s brand and to “recruit” women and girls. By Jim DeRogatis Sporting Scene Wimbledon 2019: Simona Halep Had It All Halep brought greatness with her to the final against Serena Williams, and it never really wavered—she later called it the best match she had ever played. By Gerald Marzorati PAID POST An Amazon Best Book of 2019 Hans-Peter’s macabre interests and inventions are pure Thomas Harris—and Cari Mora, a woman who has already survived unspeakable things, is a worthy opponent… in this complex cat-and-mouse thriller.”—Amazon Book Review* From the Archive American Chronicles The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau Why, given its fabrications, inconsistencies, and myopia, do we continue to cherish “Walden”? By Kathryn Schulz Elements Looking for Life on a Flat Earth What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth. By Alan Burdick Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Look Who’s Suddenly Into Tarot Cards Now That He’s Possessed by the Devil It’s almost like doing Lucifer’s bidding has turned you into a totally different person. By Ronald Metellus Daily Shouts A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30 Oksana Iyovitch: bought a kitten after seeing a picture on the Cute Emergency Twitter feed. Tried to return it when it “got too big.” By Bess Kalb Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.