How Biden Can Free Americans from Student Debt

Plus: Adrienne Rich, Barry Blitt’s latest magazine cover, and Kurt Vonnegut’s letters to his future wife. View in browser | Update your preferences Essay How the Biden Administration Can Free Americans from Student Debt In the anthropologist David Graeber’s view, the balance sheet must periodically be wiped clean, to free us from debt as an economic burden and as an ideology that distorts our interactions. By Astra Taylor From the Magazine Personal History Preparing to Spin the Wheel of Fortune You may win a lot of cash and tons of prizes, but please don’t do anything stupid, like quit your day job. By David Gilbert Books The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich Some called her coarse, extreme, too quick to change. In fact, she was always one step ahead. By Maggie Doherty On Television The Sensuality and Brutality of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” In his new film series, the director wants to vanquish any idea that British racism is somehow more repressed and less violent than the American kind. By Doreen St. Félix Cover Story Barry Blitt’s “New Traditions” The artist discusses the inspiration behind his cover for this week’s issue of the magazine. By Françoise Mouly Georgia Postcard In Georgia, the Dullest Spectator Sport in the World The election audit was a sprawling affair, a television-unfriendly November Madness, confirming that Joe Biden was the first Democrat to take the state since Bill Clinton. By Charles Bethea PAID POST From the best-selling author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” In her latest book of poetry, Margaret Atwood “infuses her newest poems with the flinty wit and surefire lucidity readers cherish in her best-selling, influential fiction” (Booklist). “Dearly” is filled “with reflections on life and death, time and change, nature and zombies” (Washington Post). On sale now Dept. of Correspondence Page-Turner Letters to Woofy “I’m overseas, dear heart, in a land full of poetic references which the censor won’t let me make,” a young Kurt Vonnegut writes to his future wife. “The same may be said for caustic comment.” By Kurt Vonnegut Humor and Puzzles Crossword Today’s Crossword They may be offended: thirteen letters. By Elizabeth C. Gorski Daily Shouts The End Is Near But not the one you were hoping for. By Aliyah Nadal Daily Cartoon Monday, November 23rd By Adam Douglas Thompson 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.