Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?

Plus: Navalny’s long-running battle with Putin enters a new phase; and what we get wrong about Joan Didion. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Architecture Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace. By John Seabrook Dispatch Navalny’s Long-Running Battle with Putin Enters a New Phase The jailed opposition leader is creating a model of guerrilla political warfare for the digital age. By Joshua Yaffa Cultural Comment Pixar’s Troubled “Soul” The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture. By Namwali Serpell Culture and More A Critic at Large What We Get Wrong About Joan Didion She’s been canonized for impeccable style, but Didion’s real insights were about what holds society together, or tears it apart. By Nathan Heller Paris Postcard A Parisian Writes Her Revenge Vanessa Springora was fourteen when the distinguished writer Gabriel Matzneff took her as his mistress. Decades later, she has published “Consent,” a memoir about his “triple predation—sexual, literary, and psychic.” By Lauren Collins Wind On Capitol Hill Baghdad on the Potomac: An Inauguration Day Tour Pedalling a correspondent around Washington, D.C., last week, a pedicab driver confronted a Green Zone of eerily empty streets. By Antonia Hitchens Cover Story Diana Ejaita’s “Interiors” The artist discusses the inspiration behind her cover for this week’s issue of the magazine. By Françoise Mouly Humor from The New Yorker Crossword Today’s Crossword Artist who often painted Mont Sainte-Victoire: seven letters. By Anna Shechtman Daily Cartoon Monday, January 25th By Paul Noth 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.