James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”

Plus: Masha Gessen on the N.Y.C. protests, Steve Coll on mail-in voting, and Anthony Lane on a new fairy-tale film. View in browser | Update your preferences Reflections Letter from a Region in My Mind From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” By James Baldwin Our Columnists A Long Night With the Jail-Support Crew After Protests in New York Dozens of people who protested the police killing of George Floyd were detained for hours in conditions that violate public-health guidelines. By Masha Gessen Our Columnists A Night of Violent Protests Sets a Nation Ablaze Across the country, clashes between police and demonstrators left at least two people dead, and local politicians combining appeals for calm with expressions of fury. By John Cassidy Daily Comment Trump’s Attack on Voting by Mail The surge in mail-in voting has protected people from COVID-19, but it has also highlighted trouble with the nation’s patchwork, underfunded election system. By Steve Coll Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Crossword-Puzzle Newsletter Never miss another New Yorker crossword again. Culture and More Kitchen Notes All the Ways to Not Waste Your Citrus Peels There’s clearly something worth keeping in those petals of shiny yellow and green and orange, but it’s more difficult to actually make use of them. By Tamar Adler The Current Cinema “The Painter and the Thief” Is a Quaveringly Dark Fairy Tale The near-electric strangeness of the attraction between this documentary’s protagonists leaves plenty to argue about. By Anthony Lane Humor from The New Yorker Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 58 SAT score upset philosophical guy (8). By Peter Gordon Daily Shouts Things I’ve Googled Recently “Can eating too much banana bread cause potassium hangover,” “Historical origin of bangs,” and other searches. By Kathryn Kvas and Irving Ruan This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.