The Case for Masking Up Again Indoors in New York City

Plus: the improbable ascendance of a queer Bulgarian performance artist, and an interview with Eric Adams. View in browser | Update your preferences Saturday, July 24, 2021 Our Local Correspondents The Case for Masking Up Again Indoors in New York City Mark Levine doesn’t want New Yorkers to overreact or underreact to the Delta variant. He does want them to cover their faces when indoors with strangers. By Eric Lach Persons of Interest The Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev The queer performance artist has improbably become one of Bulgaria’s most famous singer-songwriters. By Dimiter Kenarov Replay The Tokyo Olympics’ Unquiet Moment of Silence It’s not clear that these Games should be happening—but it’s still hard to look away. By Louisa Thomas The New Yorker Radio Hour The Ascendance of Eric Adams New York’s likely next mayor, once a victim of police violence, is now an advocate for the N.Y.P.D. Plus, how Iran plotted to kidnap an American from her home in Brooklyn. With David Remnick Culture and More Fiction “The Theresa Job” “No one would ever suspect Carney of telling a lie, of not being on the up and up. He liked it that way.” By Colson Whitehead This Week in Fiction Colson Whitehead on Historical Heists The author discusses “The Theresa Job,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Deborah Treisman Page-Turner Katie Kitamura Writes a World Ruled by Charisma In “Intimacies,” the author suggests that beauty, seduction, and charm order our lives. By Katy Waldman From the Archive A Critic at Large Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight Amelia Earhart, who was born on this day in 1897, was the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. But her career as a pilot was cut short when her plane disappeared in the Pacific. By Judith Thurman Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Be Careful Out There Over the past seventeen months, I’d forgotten about all the non-COVID stuff out there that can get you. By Tom Papa Daily Shouts Top Causes of Death Among Summer Interns Hypothermia from office air-conditioning, and other sources of early demise among those who work for free. By Pia Mileaf-Patel Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Classic bedtime story by Margaret Wise Brown: thirteen letters. By Anna Shechtman 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.