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Also: Serena Williams and Andy Murray’s mixed-doubles partnership at Wimbledon, and Aaron Sorkin on adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird.” View in browser | Update your preferences Dispatch How Iowans Greeted Kamala Harris After Her Debate Breakthrough In Iowa this week, Harris’s most compelling trait was not her steely prosecutorial composure but her fluid stage presence. By Eren Orbey Sporting Scene Wimbledon 2019: Serena Williams and Andy Murray’s Outstanding Mixed-Doubles Match Mixed doubles, with its close-range clashes among and between men and women, is the future that tennis should be embracing. By Gerald Marzorati The New Yorker Radio Hour Aaron Sorkin Kills a Mockingbird, and Tracy K. Smith Takes a Journey The director on adapting a 1960 classic to the 2019 Broadway stage. And the former Poet Laureate on bringing poems to the public. PAID POST Gut-wrenching and nimble suspense from France’s #1 bestselling author An elite prep school frozen in the snow. Three friends linked by a secret. One girl taken by the night. “The Reunion has everything a masterful thriller should,” raves Harlan Coben. “It’s no wonder that Guillaume Musso is one of France’s most loved authors." Picks from the Editors Annals of Seismology The Really Big One From 2015: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. By Kathryn Schulz Reflections What We Did at the Beach From 2015: “It’s not that our father waited till this late in the game to win our hearts. It’s that he’s succeeding.” By David Sedaris Profiles Georgia O’Keeffe’s Vision From 1974: The painter considers her life and work. By Calvin Tomkins More in Culture Under Review What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? Two satirical novels, Lucy Ives’s “Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; or, the Origin of the World” and Mona Awad’s “Bunny,” set in M.F.A. programs, challenge our ideas of literary authenticity. By Hermione Hoby Rabbit Holes Time-Travelling with Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary I was born in the year of “parachute pants” and “stepparenting.” I graduated from college in the year of “chillax” and “clickbait.” By Elif Batuman A Critic at Large How Posters Became Art It’s a story of the collective dreams that circulate in society, connecting the Lamborghini Countach to Paris in 1968. By Hua Hsu Brave New World Dept. An Archeological Space Oddity The Egyptologist Sarah Parcak is using satellites to recruit amateur Indiana Joneses who can help locate ancient tombs before they’re lost forever. By Nick Paumgarten Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts But What About No, I haven’t paid taxes in nine years. But what about the accountant I didn’t hire? By Evan Waite and River Clegg Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.