How Do We Change America?

Plus: William Barr, Trump’s enabler; what we’re reading this summer; and Edward Hopper. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists How Do We Change America? The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police alone. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Daily Comment William Barr, Trump’s “Law and Order” Enabler The Attorney General, more than any other member of the Cabinet, has fulsomely defended the President’s response to the protests over George Floyd’s death. By David Rohde Page-Turner What We’re Reading This Summer New Yorker writers on the new and notable books they can’t put down. By The New Yorker PAID POST "A BURNING won’t let you go, and you won’t want it to end."—Tommy Orange An extraordinary debut novel about class, fate, corruption, justice, and striving for more in a country spinning toward extremism. "The interplay of choice and circumstance has always been the playing field of great fiction, and on this terrain, a powerful new writer stakes her claim." –Parul Sehgal, New York Times The Art World Edward Hopper and American Solitude Pandemic or not, the artist’s masterly paintings explore conditions of aloneness as proof of belonging. By Peter Schjeldahl Culture and More Page-Turner The Late-Night Revelations in a Memoir of Insomnia Much of the writing in Samantha Harvey’s “The Shapeless Unease” mirrors the logic of the sleep-starved brain. By Katy Waldman The Front Row Billy Woodberry’s Documentary About the Poet Bob Kaufman The daring and accomplished “And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead” subtly yet powerfully expands the familiar norms of the historical-documentary genre. By Richard Brody Crossword The Weekday Crossword Actor with two Best Adapted Screenplay nominations: ten letters. By Patrick Berry Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Wendy, Master of Art, in Thrapzy Maybe I should just quit art altogether? By Walter Scott Daily Cartoon Monday, June 8th By Liz Montague 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.