This Week’s Issue: The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising

Plus: how to lose a bitcoin fortune, the biologists tinkering with photosynthesis, and “Succession” and Jeremy Strong. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship. By Dexter Filkins Annals of Money Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump For years, a Welshman who threw away the key to his cybercurrency stash has been fighting to excavate the local landfill. By D. T. Max Profiles On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke “I take him as seriously as I take my own life,” he says of his character, Kendall Roy. By Michael Schulman The Control of Nature Creating a Better Leaf Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis? By Elizabeth Kolbert Comment The Mississippi Abortion Case and the Fragile Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is an open challenge to the Court’s authority, and perhaps broadly reflects a spirit of legal self-help that is running through the land. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Podcast Dept. The Anti-Explainer Insight of “Soul Music” For more than two decades, the show has explored how memory, association, and sentiment create a song’s meaning. By Hua Hsu Books What Was So Special About Greta Garbo? An enigma onscreen and off, the actress only magnified her celebrity by suddenly renouncing it. By Margaret Talbot On Television A Fun-House Portrait of Black Life on “South Side” This hilarious, oddly literary satire, now in its second season on HBO Max, brings the bite of Norman Lear to outlandish reflections on American inequality. By Doreen St. Félix Books Should We Believe the Stories of Men Mistaken for Gods? A new book casts a mostly skeptical eye over the tales long told about Christopher Columbus, Captain Cook, and many more. By Casey Cep Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs How Immigrant Parents Say “I Love You” An unasked-for sliced banana? Jumbo packs of Ziplocs? Jesus memes? By Meghana Indurti 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.