When the Government Seizes Your Embryos

Plus: Adam Driver, the science of bad habits, and the uncertain fate of Amsterdam’s red-light district. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Technology When the Government Seizes Your Embryos In Poland, single women who have frozen embryos are now barred from accessing them. By Anna Louie Sussman Letter from Europe The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District The mayor has threatened to ban tours, cover brothel windows, and even move sex workers out of the neighborhood. By Anna Russell Politics and More Podcast Ronan Farrow on a Campaign of Silence The reporter details the efforts by men like Harvey Weinstein to censor their accusers and to intimidate journalists. Modern Life Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty Millennials who see no contradiction between using astrology and believing in science are fuelling a resurgence of the practice. By Christine Smallwood PAID POST In his final work, Edmund Morris found his greatest subject: Edison This masterful biography from Pulitzer Prize-winner Morris captures the elusive Edison—the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the wartime defense adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies—as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of myth. Culture and More Screening Room A Documentary of Funeral Care for Abandoned AIDS Patients “Departing Gesture” shows the process of a solitary funeral and burial. By Sarah Larson Profiles Adam Driver, the Original Man Why so many directors want to work with Hollywood’s most unconventional lead. By Michael Schulman Culture Desk Summer Walker’s Sex-Positive R. & B. Walker creates music for girls and women who have been made to feel that they’re too much—too loud, too bold, too sexy—and that such excess makes them unlovable. By Briana Younger Books Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong. By Jerome Groopman Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Are You Experiencing Writer’s Block or N.B.A. Block? This handy list should help clear that up. By Ian Goldstein Daily Cartoon Tuesday, October 22nd By Peter Kuper 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.