Stanley Tucci Is Savoring It All

Plus: When will January 6th be over? And spooky selections from the archive. View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, October 31, 2021 The New Yorker Interview Stanley Tucci Is Savoring It All The actor and food-show host discusses writing a memoir, surviving oral cancer, and his most memorable terrible meal. By Helen Rosner Comment When Will January 6th Be Over? Donald Trump is fighting not only to impose his view of the past but to insure his political future. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Double Take Sunday Reading: The World of Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert From the magazine’s archive: two essential works by two essential writers on the climate crisis. By The New Yorker The New Yorker Radio Hour The Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa on the Turmoil at Facebook Ressa, a Filipino American journalist, discusses the revelations that Facebook knows just how dangerous it is. Plus, the Nigerian literary giant Wole Soyinka on political activism and art. With David Remnick From the Archive Life and Letters Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World In his little books of sinister whimsy, Gorey was true to his belief in leaving things out, so that the reader’s thoughts could flower. By Joan Acocella The Front Row The Best Horror Movies for Halloween—Without the Gore These films suggest that the extremes of experience are evoked by the exploration of the supernatural, the haunted, and the dreadful. By Richard Brody Double Take Strange Tales A collection of eerie seasonal stories. By The New Yorker Humor and Games Blitt’s Kvetchbook Gaba-Ghoul: Several Questionable Halloween Puns Take your pick for the Ghoul du Jour. By Barry Blitt Daily Shouts Creatures of New York Plastic-bag ghosts, heavily tattooed mermaids, and other creepy beings found nowhere else. By Claire Wyman Daily Shouts Dog Halloween Costumes That Dogs Would Find Scary Fireworks, a vacuum cleaner, and other outlandish getups that would scare the living daylights out of any dog. By Colin Stokes and Ellis Rosen Name Drop Play the Quiz The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive. By Liz Maynes-Aminzade Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Puzzle Encourage bed-and-breakfast location by the sound: six letters. By Stella Zawistowski You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Manage your preferences | View our Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.