This Week’s Issue: Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India

Plus: A virtual-reality test drive, the artist David Hammons, and the intoxicating history of gin. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. By Dexter Filkins Profiles David Hammons Follows His Own Rules By eluding the art world, Hammons has conquered it. By Calvin Tomkins Dept. of Innovation Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive I walked with Jesus, shopped for a sofa, and flew like a bird over New York City. By Patricia Marx Annals of Alcohol The Intoxicating History of Gin The current gin craze knows no bounds, but the British have been imbibing the stuff for hundreds of years, sometimes with disastrous results. By Anthony Lane Comment The Next Steps in the Impeachment Inquiry The proceedings move to the House Judiciary Committee as Trump’s support within the Republican Party gets louder and weirder. By Amy Davidson Sorkin On Television The Incendiary Aims of HBO’s “Watchmen” Damon Lindelof’s update to Alan Moore’s graphic novel is a bombshell, reordering the fictional universe and writing buried racial trauma back into comic-book mythology. By Emily Nussbaum Books Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art Sixty years of the writer’s letters chart his evolution from iconoclast to icon. By Kevin Young Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Movie Club Newsletter Reviews of the current cinema, plus recommendations for classics and underrated treasures available on streaming services, every Friday. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Deep State D.M.V. You will hear someone call out a number. It will be a high number, expressed in scientific notation, for security purposes. By Cora Frazier 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.