The Rise of Therapy-Speak

Plus: Masha Gessen on the movement to exclude trans girls from sports, Helen Rosner on Stanley Tucci’s culinary travel show, and new fiction from Ayşegül Savaş. View in browser | Update your preferences Cultural Comment The Rise of Therapy-Speak How a language got off the couch and into the world. By Katy Waldman Our Columnists The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other. By Masha Gessen Annals of Gastronomy The Timeless Fantasy of Stanley Tucci Eating Italian Food In CNN’s culinary travel series, Italy and its food are beautiful. Not insignificantly, Tucci is beautiful, too. By Helen Rosner More in Culture Fiction “Future Selves” “The process was an act of imaginary acrobatics, trying to launch ourselves forward with only a guess of where we wanted to land.” By Ayşegül Savaş This Week in Fiction Ayşegül Savaş on How We Shape Our Lives The author discusses “Future Selves,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Cressida Leyshon On the Couch Dude, Where’s My Couch? When buyers of luxe sofas from ABC Carpet got a group e-mail about a delivery delay, the result was anger, frustration, bad jokes, and matchmaking. By Hannah Goldfield Books Briefly Noted “New Yorkers,” “Speak, Okinawa,” “The Rain Heron,” and “Poetics of Work.” Humor and Puzzles Blitt’s Kvetchbook Making Press Conferences Interesting Again President Biden keeps members of the media on their toes. By Barry Blitt Daily Shouts Not-So-Special Characters The biggest grifters, frauds, and outright nobodies on today’s typographical scene. By David Ostow Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Drawers kept in drawers: ten letters. By Patrick Berry You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.