Voting Trump Out Is Not Enough

Plus: the undying voice of Diane di Prima, the artist Sam Gilliam, and discoveries and awakenings in “Ammonite.” View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Voting Trump Out Is Not Enough The need in this country dwarfs the best of what Joe Biden has put on the table for changing our current condition. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Annals of Politics Pulling Our Politics Back from the Brink After a bitterly contested election, the country teeters between persuasion and force. By Evan Osnos Cover Story Pascal Campion’s “Hope Again” (After Mark Ulriksen, 2012) The Presidential election is the inspiration behind the cover for this week’s issue of the magazine. By Françoise Mouly St. Louis Dispatch Cori Bush, the First Black Woman to Represent Missouri in Congress Although she grew up “inured to racist cops,” seeing a photo of Michael Brown’s dead body on the street in Ferguson propelled Bush into joining the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Washington. By Bruce Handy PAID POST From Marc Levinson, acclaimed author of "The Box" "Outside the Box" is a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future. Culture and More Postscript The Undying Voice of Diane di Prima So much of the woman I am today is because of the woman Diane once was. By Amber Tamblyn The Art World How to Read Sam Gilliam’s Formalism For decades, the artist has made meltingly beautiful paintings that appeared to make no clear point about identity, but the scholar Fred Moten teases out inconspicuous themes of Blackness. By Peter Schjeldahl Books Shirley Hazzard and the Art of Outsized Intimacy In her fiction, Hazzard bridged extremes of scale, imbuing minor love stories with epic meaning. By Alice Gregory The Current Cinema Discoveries and Awakenings in “Ammonite” The amateur paleontologist Mary Anning, barred from the academy because of her class and gender, is reimagined as a sexual rebel rebuking the code of her time. By Anthony Lane Humor and Puzzles Crossword Today’s Crossword “CNN Tonight” presenter: eight letters. By Anna Shechtman Daily Cartoon Monday, November 9th By Lars Kenseth 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.