Trump’s Battle to Undermine the Vote in Pennsylvania

Plus: William Faulkner’s demons, the art of building the impossible, and Call of Duty. View in browser | Update your preferences Election 2020 Trump’s Battle to Undermine the Vote in Pennsylvania With repeated but unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, the President and his allies hoped to persuade courts to invalidate ballots in the Keystone State, or at least to stall certification of the vote in Joe Biden’s favor. By Eliza Griswold From the Magazine Books William Faulkner’s Demons In his own life, the novelist failed to truly acknowledge the evils of slavery and segregation. But he did so with savage thoroughness in his fiction. By Casey Cep Our Local Correspondents The Art of Building the Impossible The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes. By Burkhard Bilger Culture and More Video Dept. How Will New York’s Standup Scene Weather the Winter? With venues closed and ad-hoc outdoor performances coming to an end, comics and club owners try to survive on their wits alone. By Naomi Fry Culture Desk Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Mines the Paranoia of the Nineteen-Eighties and Today If the prevailing bipartisan anxiety is the idea of America laid low from within, Cold War delivers an MK-ULTRA-calibre dose. By Sam Biddle Six Feet Under Dept. Green-Wood Cemetery’s New Artist-in-Residence With half a million of New York’s dead six feet under her studio, Heidi Lau, a ceramic artist, plans to work with Chinese funeral homes for a project inspired by her grandparents’ burial rites. By Michael Schulman Books Briefly Noted Short reviews of new releases. Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts America!: Coup or Coo? Pigeons Discuss Experts debate what is at stake when a deranged pigeon leader refuses to accept the results of a pecking contest that he has clearly lost. By Ali Fitzgerald Daily Cartoon Friday, November 27th By Ellis Rosen 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.