This Week’s Issue: The Ship That Became a Bomb

Plus: Rivka Galchen on nuclear fusion; Gary Shteyngart on his circumcision nightmare; and Michael Schulman on Hollywood's original celebrity scandal.  View in browser | Update your preferences     A Reporter at Large The Ship That Became a Bomb Stranded in Yemen's war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die. By Ed Caesar Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     Annals of Science Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change? Amid an escalating crisis, the power source offers a dream—or a pipe dream—of limitless clean energy. By Rivka Galchen     Personal History A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else. By Gary Shteyngart     American Chronicles Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal A murder charge, a media frenzy, a banishment, and accusations of sexual abuse in Hollywood. What can the Arbuckle affair, now a hundred years old, teach us today? By Michael Schulman     Comment Why Republicans Are Still Recounting Votes The point of the so-called audits is not so much to delegitimize the past election as it is to normalize unnecessary reviews of future ones. By Jelani Cobb     Books The Myth of Oscar Wilde's Martyrdom He cast himself in a dazzling array of roles, both on and off the page. Can history restore the full measure of Wilde's complexity? By Clare Bucknell     The Art World Contemporary Art's Philosopher King A major retrospective shows that Jasper Johns's greatness endures. By Peter Schjeldahl     The New Yorker Festival The New Yorker Festival Preview: Stanley Tucci The actor, cookbook author, and TV host will discuss Italian cuisine and more with Helen Rosner, in a conversation that viewers can watch from anywhere. By The New Yorker     The Theatre The Precious Contingencies of Immigrants in "Sanctuary City" Martyna Majok's play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in America. By Vinson Cunningham   Humor from The New Yorker     Shouts & Murmurs The Stress-Free Family Meal Plan May contain trace amounts of stress. By Kate Sidley     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.