Masha Gessen on the Coup Stage of Trump’s Presidency

Plus: Kamala Harris and the noble path of the prosecutor; Rudy Giuliani; and Harold Bloom on Ursula K. Le Guin. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Kamala Harris and the Noble Path of the Prosecutor If past decades drew ambitious lawyers to demonstrate toughness, with destructive consequences, today’s politics are transforming what it means to be a successful prosecutor. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Our Columnists The Coup Stage of Donald Trump’s Presidency To see this period more clearly, we can look to failed coup attempts of the past. By Masha Gessen Letter from Trump’s Washington Trump’s Clown Coup Crisis We’ve been getting used to painful truths for so long that the awful enormity of the current situation doesn’t hit us in the way it should. By Susan B. Glasser Our Columnists Rudy Giuliani Is a Hot Mess The former New York mayor virtually broke the Internet when he held a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. His latest public outing was even more bizarre. By John Cassidy 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 Page-Turner The Strange Friendships of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness” The only thing that makes it possible to read and reread the best novels is not knowing what comes next, even though we have read them before. By Harold Bloom Books & Poetry Books Briefly Noted Short reviews of new releases. Poems “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On” “Do you see how mighty you’ve made us, / all these generations running?” By Tracy K. Smith Poems “Back from the Cannery” “The women at our house worked in the cannery / and, afterward, at home.” By Kirmen Uribe Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Sleep-Training Methods for Adults The Pick-Up-Put-Down Method, Bedtime-Hour Fading, and more! By Danielle Kraese Daily Cartoon Friday, November 20th By Zoe Si 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.