When “Creatives” Turn Destructive: Image-Makers and the Climate Crisis

Plus: the second life of Princess Diana’s most notorious sweater, the failures of the Catholic Church in addressing sexual abuse, and a philosopher who studies our species’ “existential risk.” View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment When “Creatives” Turn Destructive: Image-Makers and the Climate Crisis If money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns, then P.R. campaigns and snappy catchphrases are the kindling. By Bill McKibben On and Off the Avenue The Second Life of Princess Diana’s Most Notorious Sweater A reissue of the black-sheep sweater sells a new generation on the empowerment narrative of Diana’s fashion choices. By Rachel Syme Daily Comment The New Vatican Report and the Church’s Failures The example of Theodore McCarrick demonstrates the Church’s inability to deal with sexual abuse in frank, clear terms. By Paul Elie Annals of Inquiry How Close Is Humanity to the Edge? Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’s “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the pandemic. By Corinne Purtill 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 Fiction “The Old Man in the Piazza” “This little piazza in this little town contains a sage of such profundity that he can resolve all your disagreements on the spot.” By Salman Rushdie Culture and More Page-Turner Danielle Evans’s Sublime Short Stories of Race and Belonging “The Office of Historical Corrections,” an extraordinary new collection of fiction, examines alienation and the phantasmagoria of racial performance. By Katy Waldman The Front Row Five Movies About Royals to Compete with “The Crown” Royalty gives rise to artistic revelations, and movies about monarchs are an international counterpart to the American Western, an inescapably and essentially political genre. By Richard Brody Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts I Believe That Marriage Is a Sacred Union Marriage is a never-ending finger trap between the one who accidentally called their partner “my fiancé” at a Christmas party and the one who smiled ominously and said, “No take-backs.” By Taylor Kay Phillips Blitt’s Kvetchbook Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You Highly disturbing objects and scenarios to avoid. By Barry Blitt Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Title conveyance in a 1947 Tennessee Williams play: nine letters. By Wyna Liu 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.