This Week’s Issue: Dressing for the Surveillance Age

Plus: The artist Jordan Wolfson, the end of the Peace Corps in China, and more from our Style & Design Issue. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Technology Dressing for the Surveillance Age As cities become ever more packed with cameras that always see, public anonymity could disappear. Can stealth streetwear evade electronic eyes? By John Seabrook Profiles Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art Can an artist who built a career on provocation survive a newly sensitive age? By Dana Goodyear Letter from Fuling The Peace Corps Breaks Ties with China The agency has always been viewed as removed from political spats. But the timing of the U.S.’s decision seems suspicious. By Peter Hessler Comment Biden, Sanders, and Trump, After Super Tuesday Trump should be scared of both candidates—but he has a bully’s instinct for identifying points of tension. By Amy Davidson Sorkin The World of Fashion Telfar Clemens’s Mass Appeal A New York designer goes to Paris and beyond. By Emily Witt Books Hubris and Delusion at the End of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Trilogy Throughout “The Mirror and the Light,” one feels the effort of Mantel’s attempts to stop the accumulation of events sliding from her grip. By Daniel Mendelsohn The Art World The Dark Revelations of Gerhard Richter Though the artist was previously indirect in his references to the horrors of the Third Reich, he has reason to focus on them now, in a retrospective at the Met Breuer. By Peter Schjeldahl Humor from The New Yorker Personal History My High-School Commute By the time I got home, I felt the sense of accomplishment that comes with completing a journey by land, sea, and underground rocket toilet. By Colin Jost 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 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.