Is There Any Time Left for Maya Wiley?

Plus: the bright side of the May jobs report, the boxing spectacle of Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul, and new fiction from Rachel Heng. View in browser | Update your preferences Saturday, June 5, 2021 Our Local Correspondents Is There Any Time Left for Maya Wiley? The former City Hall lawyer considers herself the last progressive standing in the New York City mayoral race. By Eric Lach Our Columnists The Other Side of the May Jobs Report: Higher Wages Many American workers are seeing the biggest pay gains in decades. By John Cassidy The Sporting Scene The Ridiculous, Not-So-Ridiculous Spectacle of Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul On Sunday, a YouTube prankster will step into the ring with one of the greatest living boxers. What could go wrong? By Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker Radio Hour A Vaccinated Day at the Ballpark, and Sarah Schulman on ACT UP Patricia Marx reviews the new vaccinated sections at New York’s baseball stadiums, and the activist discusses the AIDS action group’s impact. With David Remnick Culture and More Fiction “Before the Valley” “Before wasn’t talked about often; it felt unseemly somehow, self-indulgent, to dwell on one’s past life.” By Rachel Heng This Week in Fiction Rachel Heng on Societal Cruelty The author discusses “Before the Valley,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Deborah Treisman On Television “Inside” Is a Virtuosic Portrait of a Mediated Mind The comedian Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special explores what it means to be a performer when you are stuck to a screen but also stuck inside your head. By Rachel Syme Multi-Cam Dept. Annie Murphy’s One-Eighty The “Schitt’s Creek” star discusses trading Alexis Rose’s “socialitey” vocal fry for a working-class Boston brogue on the meta sitcom-drama “Kevin Can F**K Himself.” By Alex Barasch From the Archive Comment When New York City Mourned R.F.K. When he was assassinated, on this day in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S. senator from New York and the leading Democratic Presidential candidate. By Paul Brodeur and James Stevenson Humor and Puzzles Blitt’s Kvetchbook Fringe Groups Meet the extremists way out on the periphery. By Barry Blitt Daily Shouts How Can I Help You? Don’t think too hard about it. By Breena Nuñez Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Like the line “I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!”: eight letters. By Erik Agard 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.