Have You Already Had a Breakthrough COVID Infection?

Plus: Dexter Filkins on Afghanistan, a new “Simpsons” cookbook, and poems by Mary Jo Bang and Nick Laird. View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, August 22, 2021 Medical Dispatch Have You Already Had a Breakthrough COVID Infection? The question of what “infection” means is just one of the riddles posed by the late-stage pandemic. By Dhruv Khullar Comment What We Left Behind in Afghanistan The United States’ hasty, ill-planned withdrawal was one last favor for the Taliban. By Dexter Filkins Double Take Sunday Reading: A Wonderful Town From the magazine’s archive: pieces about Manhattan and the figures and places that make the city so unforgettable. By Erin Overbey Annals of Gastronomy In the Kitchen with “The Unofficial Simpsons Cookbook” The book includes seventy recipes based on dishes that have been portrayed in the show, from Krusty Burgers to Agnes Skinner’s Preserves to Bart’s “Supoib” Manhattan. By Naomi Fry Culture and More Poems “From Another Approach” “The year is still the perpetual now / refusing to escape its frame.” By Mary Jo Bang Poems “Theodicy” “A human is not such a perfect machine.” By Nick Laird The Front Row Depicting the Holocaust from the Point of View of a Nazi Official Andrzej Munk’s 1961 drama “Passenger” neither vulgarizes its subject nor presumes access to it. By Richard Brody The New Yorker Live Celebrating the Return of Broadway On Monday, award-winning artists will discuss the revival of live theatre, in a conversation exclusively for subscribers. Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Arthur the Aardvark Is Forty-five Tracking down the “Arthur’s Nose” characters to gauge their interest in a reboot. By Kathleen Radigan Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Puzzle Sleuth’s busted scams: seven 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.