The Kremlin’s Creative Director

Plus: The impeachment hearings and Justice Antonin Scalia, Merce Cunningham, and the year’s best cookbooks. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Moscow The Kremlin’s Creative Director How the television producer Konstantin Ernst went from discerning auteur to Putin’s unofficial minister of propaganda. By Joshua Yaffa Daily Comment The Impeachment Hearings and Antonin Scalia The late Justice made the argument that we should be bound forever to the ideas of the eighteenth-century men who framed the Constitution. By Jeffrey Toobin Politics and More Podcast This Is William Cohen’s Third Impeachment In 1974, the freshman representative helped seal Nixon’s fate. In 1998, during the Clinton impeachment, he was Defense Secretary. Now he explains how the Trump impeachment inquiry stacks up. PAID POST The highly anticipated sequel to Tomi Adeyemi’s groundbreaking novel Proclaimed a best book of the year by NPR, TIME, and Newsweek, Children of Blood and Bone has taken the world by storm. The New York Times says it “poses thought-provoking questions about race, class and authority.” Now the phenomenon continues in Children of Virtue of Vengeance. 2019 in Review The Best Cookbooks of 2019 This year, cookbook publishers seem to be saying, the hungry reader wants to be presented with history, memory, clarity, simplicity. By Helen Rosner Culture and More Postscript The Beautiful Vulnerability of Juice WRLD The rapper, who died on Sunday, at age twenty-one, displayed softness in a world that both expects and requires people like him to be tough. By Briana Younger On and Off the Avenue Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear The sportswear giant is trying to make swimming more accessible to observant Muslim women. By Christina Binkley Culture Desk Dancing with Merce Cunningham in Three Dimensions A new film shows the work of a craftsman whose precision, rigor, and imagination could take your breath away. By Marina Harss Puzzles and Games Dept. The Weekday Crossword Race that once had a four-minute barrier: four letters. By Natan Last Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts A Terrible Alternate Dimension for Teens Three friends enter a portal by the old train tracks. By Abby Jame Daily Cartoon Monday, December 9th By Avi Steinberg 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.