This Week’s Issue: What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop?

Plus: A personal history by Haruki Murakami, the integrity of the Trump impeachment inquiry, and a mentalist’s manipulation techniques. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large What if Your Abusive Husband Is a Cop? Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home. By Rachel Aviv Personal History Abandoning a Cat Memories of my father. By Haruki Murakami Profiles A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places. By Dana Goodyear Annals of Show Business How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to. By Adam Green Comment The Integrity of the Trump Impeachment Inquiry A clear and detailed whistle-blower complaint may help defend the process against the torrent of spin and lies that the President and his allies will surely continue to issue. By Steve Coll Counterparts Dept. In Ukraine, a TV President to Rival Trump Before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected President, he played the part in "Servant of the People," a series that blends Ryan Murphy wackiness with Sorkinian uplift. By Emily Nussbaum Books Fanny Howe Makes Sense of Beginnings and Endings After sixty years of writing, the poet’s latest collection has fresh urgency—the necessity of reimagining time even as time runs out. By Dan Chiasson PAID POST “Toil & Trouble” by Augusten Burroughs A stunning memoir that is tender, touching . . . and just a little spooky. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Are You on the Apps? What’s the name of that dating app—the one where if someone doesn’t respond to your message a freelance contract killer goes to his house and kills him for you? By Hallie Cantor 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.

How Trump Could Further Erode Our Democracy

Michael Luo on the potential weaponizing of the impeachment process. Plus: a Personal History by Haruki Murakami. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment How Trump Could Further Erode Our Democracy With the unrestrained partisan animus that defines American politics today, even the proper use of impeachment could lead to the weaponizing of the process. By Michael Luo News Desk Trump’s Close-Call Diplomacy with Iran Emmanuel Macron intended to set up a three-way telephone conversation with Hassan Rouhani and the U.S. President. But, at the last moment, it fell apart. By Robin Wright Counterparts Dept. Ukraine’s TV President Before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected, he played in a genre-bending series that blends Ryan Murphy wackiness with Sorkinian uplift. By Emily Nussbaum Profiles A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places. By Dana Goodyear Our Columnists A Hypnotic but Contextless Portrait of Stalin’s Death and Its Aftermath In the found-footage documentary “State Funeral,” an absence of explanation creates a peculiarly powerful effect of both immediacy and estrangement. By Masha Gessen PAID POST A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in the making. From beloved cartoonist Chris Ware, a masterwork of graphic fiction that tackles life's biggest themes and smallest moments. “Rusty Brown is shaping up to be Ware’s epic, a kind of comic-book Ulysses full of unreliable narrators and occasional forays into stream of consciousness.”—Esquire Essays Personal History Abandoning a Cat “This heavy weight my father carried—a trauma, in today’s terminology—was handed down, in part, to me.” By Haruki Murakami Culture and More Second Read Rosmarie Waldrop’s Novel of the In-Between A book of desire and scandal and personal and political circumstance, “The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter” is also about the problem of narration. By Ben Lerner Puzzles Dept. The Weekday Crossword Instrument that famously opens Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”: five letters. By Natan Last Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Doctors’ Evaluations from When I Still Had Insurance “Patient requested a prescription for Adderall to last her three years, as she ‘would, like, probably be making bank by then.’ ” By Julia Edelman and Ginny Hogan Daily Cartoon Monday, September 30th By Pat Byrnes 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 insure delivery to your in-box (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.