The Fight to Prove That Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Crime

Plus: Virginia Woolf’s letters, Waxahatchee, and the Greenland shark. View in browser | Update your preferences The New Yorker Documentary The Fight to Prove That Humanitarian Aid Is Not a Crime This short documentary highlights the moral questions facing an Arizona community when Scott Warren, a thirty-six-year-old geographer, is prosecuted for bringing water to migrants in the desert. By Murat Oztaskin Culture Desk How Virginia Woolf Kept Her Brother Alive in Letters For Woolf, correspondence became a way to transcend a climate of illness—to envision a future she couldn’t see. By Kamran Javadizadeh Culture Desk The Unexpected Sunlight of Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” Katie Crutchfield’s fifth solo album, which was released just as the country went into coronavirus lockdown, has become a talisman of the self-isolation era. By Jia Tolentino Cultural Comment Willa Cather’s Quietly Shattering War Novel In “One of Ours,” the author merged pandemic and war into a general season of death. By Alex Ross 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. From the Archive Elements The Strange and Gruesome Story of the Greenland Shark, the Longest-Living Vertebrate on Earth How a triple infanticide in Germany shed light on an elusive cold-water predator. By M. R. O’Connor Movies and Puzzles The Front Row A Movie About the Dreams and Delusions of Marriage “The Happy Ending,” Richard Brooks’s passionate and cinema-centric drama, burrows deeply into one woman’s harrowing experience of domestic life. By Richard Brody Crossword Today’s Crossword Pronoun separators in many a Twitter bio: seven letters. By Erik Agard Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Tough-Guy Things I Can Do Because I Don’t Wear a Face Mask I can spit anywhere I want. By Alex Watt Daily Cartoon Wednesday, July 8th By Amy Kurzweil 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.