This Week’s Issue: Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker?

Plus: a Profile of Edna O’Brien, the continued relevance of Nietzsche, and a fund in Georgia fighting for abortion access. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? How predictive-text technology could transform the future of the written word. By John Seabrook Profiles Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run At eighty-eight, the regal Irish novelist is publishing new fiction—and recalling her early rise to fame. By Ian Parker Letter from Atlanta Fighting for Abortion Access in the South A fund in Georgia is responding to restrictive legislation with a familial kind of care. By Alexis Okeowo Annals of Philosophy Nietzsche’s Eternal Return Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher. By Alex Ross The Theatre “Freestyle Love Supreme” Raps Its Way to Broadway Although putatively grounded in hip-hop, the improvised production shows little interest in the technical aspects of the form. By Vinson Cunningham Books An Omani Novel Exposes Marriage and Its Miseries In “Celestial Bodies,” a multigenerational narrative of women is sliced by the patriarchy’s violent edge. By James Wood The Current Cinema “Pain and Glory” Tells Autumnal Truths Gathering his obsessions together like old friends, Pedro Almodóvar has made one of his richest and most sombre films yet. By Anthony Lane PAID POST Now in paperback from Susan Orlean Susan Orlean’s best-seller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight . . . as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Meanwhile, in Kiev What happened after Trump hung up. By Yoni Brenner 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.