Haiti, Ten Years After a Devastating Earthquake

Plus: The downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, and the Democratic candidates’ responses to the conflict with Iran. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment Haiti Faces Difficult Questions Ten Years After a Devastating Earthquake Sorrowful anniversaries magnify absence. They also inevitably make us wonder what might have been. By Edwidge Danticat Our Columnists How a Journalist in Kyiv Responded to the Downing of a Ukrainian Passenger Plane For a generation of Ukrainian journalists, the crash is the latest in a long line of tragedies to report on: more grief, more dead bodies, and more that will never be known. By Masha Gessen From the Archives The Talk of the Town Night Out A party for Yoko Ono. By Elizabeth Wurtzel Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Food Newsletter Get essays on food, restaurant reviews, and notes for the kitchen, all delivered to your in-box. Fiction “Found Wanting” “He reached behind my left ear and caressed my earlobe, as though he were tucking my hair behind it. I was rigid with inexperience.” By Douglas Stuart Culture The New Yorker Radio Hour The Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran Eric Lach is in Iowa, ahead of the next debate, where the Democratic candidates are honing their responses to the volatile situation with Iran. Plus, an insider’s disenchantment with Silicon Valley. Sketchpad Which Doomed New Year’s Resolution Are You? Will this finally be the year that you don’t learn Mandarin? By Olivia de Recat Humor and More Puzzles and Games Dept. The Weekend Crossword First team to win five Super Bowls, for short: six letters. By Natan Last Daily Shouts The Path-Less-Travelled Hollywood Cemetery Tour Visit the burial plots of Esther Williams’s body double, the owner of a hot-sheet motel, an Oscar-winning phrenologist, and other lesser-known characters. By Jennifer Crittenden 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.