This Week’s Issue: The Staying Power of Iggy Pop

Plus: the message of the measles outbreak, the rise and fall and rise of economic inequality, and more. View in browser | Update your preferences Profiles The Survival of Iggy Pop An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami. By Amanda Petrusich A Reporter at Large The Message of Measles As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease. By Nick Paumgarten Dept. of Finance The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They? Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break. By Liaquat Ahamed Onward and Upward with the Arts Vija Celmins’s Surface Matters The artist produces relatively little work and vigorously resists all forms of self-promotion. But, as she enters her eighties, her attitudes may be changing. By Calvin Tomkins A Critic at Large Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate. By Adam Gopnik Comment China’s Hong Kong Dilemma The mass demonstrations are in bold defiance of Chinese authority—but a crackdown could be incalculably costly. By Evan Osnos Books Reader, I Googled It Amid fears about the death of books, finding new ways to bring them to life. By Dan Chiasson PAID POST A new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission Amy Waldman, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times after 9/11, has written a taut, propulsive novel about an idealistic young woman’s pilgrimage to an Afghan village, the complicated truths she finds there, and her confrontation with America’s longest war. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Love Poems for People with Children I look at my darling / who spits up on me again / and appears to mouth “dickhead.” / I am sure of it. By John Kenney 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.