What Is Distance Learning For?

Plus: police-department secrets; Republicans will not abandon Trump; and Jane Austen. View in browser | Update your preferences Personal History What Is Distance Learning For? Ms. V did this with eighteen kids, every single day. How hard could it be for us to do it with one kid, our own? By Keith Gessen Our Local Correspondents How a Coalition of New York Activists Revealed Police-Department Secrets The widespread protests over George Floyd’s death helped prompt legislators to repeal a law that kept police disciplinary records from public view. By Tom Robbins Letter from Trump’s Washington Trump’s Losing, So When Are Republican Candidates Going to Abandon Him? Spoiler alert: they aren’t. By Susan B. Glasser PAID POST Will one band change the world, or will the world change them? From David Mitchell, the New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas comes Utopia Avenue, a kaleidoscopic novel about music, madness, idealism—and the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Personal History Living Through Turbulent Times with Jane Austen How six unexpectedly far-ranging novels carried me through eight years, two births, one death, and a changing world. By Rachel Cohen Culture and More Kitchen Notes Extracting a Mother’s Rogan Josh Recipe Over Zoom Standing in her kitchen in Michigan, my mother finally walked me through the recipe, peering into the screen as I held it above the pot of sputtering oil. By Priyanka Mattoo The Front Row “Jayhawkers,” a Thrilling Drama of Wilt Chamberlain’s College Years During his time as a basketball star at the University of Kansas, Chamberlain also became an unofficial civil-rights leader. By Richard Brody Housebound Sound Jarvis Cocker Asks, “Must I Evolve?” The Britpop icon and former Pulp front man chats about his thing for caves and his new record, “Beyond the Pale,” which just might have predicted the coronavirus lockdown. By Sarah Larson Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Should You Cancel Yourself? A Quiz Tally up your final score to find out. By Victor Varnado and Susan Shapiro Daily Cartoon Friday, July 17th By Tim Hamilton 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.