This Week’s Issue: A Posthumous Essay by Anthony Veasna So

Also in the Fiction Issue: newly discovered work by Marcel Proust, an excerpt from Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel, and a short memoir by Margaret Atwood.  View in browser | Update your preferences     Personal History Duplex I needed to make portraits that were heartbreaking. I needed to be great, worthy of the Western canon, of Dad. By Anthony Veasna So Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     Fiction "Young Girls" "I would have passionately loved—I won't even say to know them, but for them to form a high opinion of me." By Marcel Proust     Fiction "Satellites" "Conor and Tony were meticulous, but owing to oversights they'd each had five kids by four women." By Rebecca Curtis     Fiction "Unread Messages" "Alice, she said, am I going to have to live in the real world one day? Without looking up, Alice snorted and said, Jesus, no, absolutely not." By Sally Rooney     Growing Pains Driving Lessons I thought I had lots of fears—thunderstorms, forest fires, bears—but these were not the right kind of fears for driving. By Margaret Atwood     Growing Pains The Buffalo Robe and the Radio I had fallen in love with rock and roll and the dark. By Sterling HolyWhiteMountain     Growing Pains A Drive Across the Lone-Star State My stepdad, a deputy sheriff, had to transport a prisoner to the penitentiary; my mom thought I should ride along. By David Wright Faladé     Growing Pains I Do Live Here I hadn't yet crossed that threshold Black adolescents cross in America's codified subconscious—adorable kid to dangerous threat. By J. M. Holmes     Growing Pains Haunted House It was a form of psychological conditioning, a test I gave myself. I watched to see what would happen to me. By Emma Cline   Humor from The New Yorker     Sketchbook Summer in the City Skilled shade-spotters, proper clothing optional. By Mokshini     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.