How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands

Plus: the power and peril of crowds, the unruly genius of Joyce Carol Oates, and a crucial work of Afrofuturism. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands Once a distant outpost of the British Empire, the islands have become a global crossroads. In the season of the coronavirus, the intimate communities may evolve yet again. By Larissa MacFarquhar Daily Comment The Present Belongs to Crowds Urgent questions of our public life involve crowds: their power, their perils, their inevitability. So do questions of what forms our society ought to take in the near future. By Paul Elie Double Take Sunday Reading: American Democracy From the archive: stories about the U.S. political system and people who have tried to strengthen it. By The New Yorker PAID POST Dig into this delectable journey of dark, sensual and ravishing poetry Ruminate the searing to the sultry as you absorb this haunting lilt of burning carnality. The poems ignite rapid and surprising shifts in focus and perspective as they twist and turn your preconceptions, allowing the implications to linger in your thoughts. Culture and More A Critic at Large The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates In an era that fetishizes form, Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do. By Leo Robson The Front Row What to Stream: A Crucial Work of Afrofuturism With “Top of the Heap,” Christopher St. John joined the dismayingly long list of minority filmmakers who made one, great feature and never received a chance to make another. By Richard Brody Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Thirsty Texts from All Your Ex-Clothes “Been thinking about how you used to spill things on me. Didn’t think I’d miss it this much.” By Annah Feinberg Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 3 By Fraser Simpson 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.