The Lingering of Loss

A new Personal History by Jill Lepore. Plus: Robert Caro reflects on Robert Moses and L.B.J. View in browser | Update your preferences Personal History The Lingering of Loss My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest. By Jill Lepore The New Yorker Interview Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses and L.B.J. The journalist discusses his famous subjects and their use of power, his reporting methods, and the time he got called out by one of his professors at Princeton. By The New Yorker Q. & A. Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball The former Golden State Warriors star discusses his career, the evolution of the sport, and the clash between religious beliefs and gay acceptance in the N.B.A. By Isaac Chotiner Sporting Scene Venus Williams Blazed a Trail for Coco Gauff, Who Looks Like the Future of Tennis There are aspects of Gauff’s game that hint not only at where women’s tennis has been in the Williams era but where it looks to be headed now. By Gerald Marzorati Profiles On the Road with Mitski The musician, who writes achingly intense songs about private yearnings, has spent the past year in performance venues packed with fellow-loners. By Margaret Talbot Photo Booth Photo Booth Gioncarlo Valentine’s Searing Portraits of Black Men in Baltimore All of the subjects in “The Soft Fence” move, walk, pose, stunt, and style like they’re afraid. By Kiese Laymon More in Culture Cultural Comment The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music Did a First World War-era fight against the conductor of the Boston Symphony help spark the rapid rise of jazz? By Alex Ross The Front Row “Spider-Man: Far from Home”: The Illusion of a Good Movie The latest Marvel installment is a work of crude and trendy distinctions between material realities and fabricated media images. By Richard Brody Rabbit Holes A Word of Thanks for Compression Socks There’s something about starting at the bottom of your feet and squeezing all your excess up, as though you were a tube of toothpaste. Your body feels lighter, your head feels clearer, your limbs feel freer. By Andrea DenHoed Kitchen Notes Coming Back to Ackee and Salt Fish, Jamaica’s National Dish Our meals are associated with memories, but that’s not to say that we can’t carve out new ones. The things that we run away from can be the same things that call us home. By Bryan Washington Newsletters Sign Up for John Cassidy’s Newsletter Get the latest on politics and the economy. Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Signatures in Danny Zuko’s Yearbook Parting words for the graduating greaser, from memorable and forgettable characters alike. By Johnny DiNapoli Daily Cartoon Tuesday, July 2nd By Drew Panckeri 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.