The Best Music of 2020

Plus: the cost of Trump’s assault on the press; portraits of fast-food workers; and three new poems. View in browser | Update your preferences Comment The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth The President is being forced to give up his attempt to overturn the election. But he will continue his efforts to build an alternative reality around himself. By David Remnick Page-Turner A Poet Reflects on Europe’s Last Dictatorship Valzhyna Mort’s new book is part of the protest movement in Belarus. It captures, through language, the contours of dissent. By Jennifer Wilson Portfolio Faces of a Fast-Food Nation During the pandemic, low-wage workers must manage risk and rudeness. Double Take Sunday Reading: Whodunnits and Other Mysteries From The New Yorker’s archive: stories about secrets and unsolved crimes. By Erin Overbey PAID POST A Message of Hope from Pope Francis In his most personal writing yet, Pope Francis explains how we can emerge from the COVID crisis stronger and more unified than ever. He also provides a blueprint for a better, fairer world. Available now where books are sold. 2020 in Review The Best Music of 2020 In my listening this year, I wanted only to be felled instantaneously—works by Dua Lipa, Adrianne Lenker, and eight more artists did so. By Amanda Petrusich Poetry Poems “Gravitational” “Terra’s a magnet, and we its iron filings, / Arrayed in patterns preordained.” By Alfred Corn Poems “Betye Saar’s ‘Mystic Chart for an Unemployed Sorceress’ ” “Each cold // Day warns me that my résumé is unworthy.” By Patricia Spears Jones Poems “November” A poem by Charles Simic. By Charles Simic Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Having a Baby in Quarantine This was supposed to be a celebratory time, a time of connection. By Whit Taylor Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 96 Wonderful editor of “Mad” (2,3,3). By Todd McClary 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.