This Week’s Issue: Voices of American Dissent

Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, Larry Kramer, and more from our archives. View in browser | Update your preferences This week’s special archival issue explores dissent as an essential component of the American story and the American future. Comment John Lewis’s Legacy and America’s Redemption The civil-rights leader, who died Friday, acknowledged the darkest chapters of the country’s history, yet insisted that change was always possible. By David Remnick Letter from Jackson The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi An encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure. By Calvin Trillin The Political Scene The Matter of Black Lives A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be? By Jelani Cobb Profiles The Climate Expert Who Delivered News No One Wanted to Hear How a scientist known as the “father of global warming” watched his dire predictions for the planet come true. By Elizabeth Kolbert Profiles Toni Morrison and the Ghosts in the House As an editor, author, and professor, Morrison has fostered a generation of black writers. By Hilton Als Profiles Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance The man who warned America about AIDS can’t stop fighting hard—and loudly. By Michael Specter Books The Desires of Margaret Fuller The writer had a dazzling intelligence and was once the best-read woman in America, but a public hungry for transgressive heroines has failed to embrace her. By Judith Thurman A Critic at Large The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez How the labor leader disserved his dream. By Nathan Heller Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. More from the Archive Issue Fiction “The Lottery” From 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.” By Shirley Jackson Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.