How Ben Stiller Will Remember His Father

Plus: the rogue experimenters; the twilight of the Iranian Revolution; and sourdough starter. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Ideas The Rogue Experimenters Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts? By Margaret Talbot Letter from Iran The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country. By Dexter Filkins The New Yorker Interview How Ben Stiller Will Remember His Father The actor and director on growing up with famous comedians as parents and how his father, Jerry Stiller, saw his son’s career. By Isaac Chotiner Daily Comment Camus and the Political Tests of a Pandemic It can be uncanny to encounter Camus’s seven-decade-old account of a leader whose advisers cannot speak aloud the name of the disease that is rampaging through their city. By Steve Coll Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Culture and More Postscript No One Had Instincts Like Fred Willard All along, Willard’s instincts as an actor made us feel better about our own, by showing us characters who are even more absurd than we are. By Sarah Larson Kitchen Notes Sourdough Starter for the Baking Skeptic I’ve never made bread with it and I doubt I ever will. By Tamar Adler The Front Row What to Stream: Forty-four Standout Movies Cannes is cancelled this year, but you can still watch the festival’s best offerings since its founding, in 1946. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Dr. Clifton’s Fantastical Miracle Elixir Return Policy You may be denied a refund if Dr. Clifton does not like the cut of your jib. And he so rarely likes jib cuts. By Evan Waite Daily Cartoon Tuesday, May 19th By Ellis Rosen This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure 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.