This Week’s Issue: Is the President of Honduras a Narco-Trafficker?

Plus: what it is like to fight a megafire; the battle over how to manage deer populations; and Kandinsky at the Guggenheim.  View in browser | Update your preferences     Letter from Honduras Is the President of Honduras a Narco-Trafficker? For decades, the U.S. has accommodated corruption in Central America. Now it is contending with the results. By Jon Lee Anderson Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     Annals of a Warming Planet What It's Like to Fight a Megafire Wildfires have grown more extreme. So have the risks of combatting them. By M. R. O'Connor     A Reporter at Large The Great Organic-Food Fraud There's no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune. By Ian Parker     The Control of Nature Deer Wars and Death Threats A small subset of wild animals thrive alongside humans. An unusual—and polarizing—set of conservation projects have sprung up in response. By Brooke Jarvis     Comment Running Out of Time at the U.N. Climate Conference To really appreciate America's fecklessness, you have to go back to 1992's so-called Earth Summit. By Elizabeth Kolbert     Books Victoria Chang's Correspondence with Grief In "Dear Memory," Chang experiments with the grammar of loss, addressing letters to those who will never respond, and finding meaning in their silence. By Kamran Javadizadeh     Books Are There Hidden Advantages to Pain and Suffering? Two new books examine how we benefit from unpleasant experiences. By Meghan O'Gieblyn     The Theatre "Morning Sun" Glimmers with Meaning In Simon Stephens's dreamily extended riff, Edie Falco plays a woman whose life is dramatic but unsung, the kind that never makes headlines but is nonetheless dense with incident. By Vinson Cunningham     The Art World Choose Your Own Kandinsky Adventure at the Guggenheim "Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle" takes the viewer from joy to perplexity—or the reverse—depending on where you start on the museum's ramp. By Peter Schjeldahl   Humor from The New Yorker     Shouts & Murmurs Want to Get Junior Away from That Screen? Try martial arts (to wrestle the phone away), a game of jacks, or a time-travel journey to confront the young Steve Jobs. By Jay Ruttenberg     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.