Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself

Plus: the secret to ratatouille, selfies from the seventies, and the end of the N.B.A. season. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem? By Andrew Marantz Culture and More Kitchen Notes The French Secret to Ratatouille, a Last Taste of Summer It was only with this dish that I realized how important the cook-things-separately approach is in French cuisine. By Bill Buford Books The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated. What lessons can we draw from such a close call? By Elizabeth Kolbert Photo Booth Mike Mandel’s Selfies from the Seventies Curiosity is the animating force of the photographs. You start to sense that Mandel sees everyone—the stranger and the self—as members of the same team. By Emma Cline The Front Row “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” Reviewed Radha Blank’s début feature film is a playwright’s boldly self-aware comedy of art and compromise. By Richard Brody The Sporting Scene The Sporting Scene Rafael Nadal’s French Open Victory Extends Tennis’s Best Rivalry Great competitors don’t always yield great matches, and Sunday’s contest with Novak Djokovic was lopsided. By Gerald Marzorati The Sporting Scene The N.B.A. Bubble Was Another Sphere for LeBron James to Conquer No player, perhaps, had as much riding on the success of the bubble. By Louisa Thomas Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts A Sneak Preview of Amy Coney Barrett’s Opening Statement Before the election, the Senate needs not only to confirm me but to confirm successors for the Justices who die of covid-19 after my swearing-in party. By Lew Morton Daily Cartoon Monday, October 12th By Brendan Loper 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.