This Week’s Issue: The Murder Scandalizing Brazil’s Evangelical Church

Plus: a Profile of the singer Mickey Guyton; how a city comes back to life; and the classicist who killed Homer.  View in browser | Update your preferences     A Reporter at Large The Murder Scandalizing Brazil's Evangelical Church Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed. By Jon Lee Anderson Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     Dept. of Returns How a City Comes Back to Life After a year of tragedy and uncertainty, New Yorkers are revisiting old haunts—and sharing them with new faces. By Adam Gopnik     Profiles How Mickey Guyton Is Making Country Music Her Own The "Black Like Me" singer is taking on the overwhelming whiteness of the genre. By Amanda Petrusich     The Ancient World How Nasty Was Nero, Really? A show at the British Museum portrays him as the victim of a Roman smear campaign. By Rebecca Mead     Comment The G.O.P.'s Assault on Voting Rights Republicans in Texas and Arizona are trying to undermine confidence in democracy. By Sue Halpern     Books How ACT UP Changed America The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. What can the movement's legacy, of both ferocity and fragility, teach us? By Michael Specter     Books The Classicist Who Killed Homer How Milman Parry proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by a lone genius. By Adam Kirsch     Books Francisco Goldman, Archivist and Alchemist of the Self In "Monkey Boy," an autofictional avatar plunges into the past while struggling to stay afloat in the present. By James Wood     On Television "Hacks" Pits Zoomer Against Boomer It's Carhartt versus caftan in this HBO Max series, which depicts a generational war between a young TV writer and a Las Vegas standup legend, played by Jean Smart. By Doreen St. Félix   Humor from The New Yorker     Shouts & Murmurs Two Plus Two Things add up differently in different parts of our great nation. By Ian Frazier     Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week's magazine.   You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for This Week's Issue 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.