| | | | | How Susan Sorrells transformed a Death Valley mining village into a model of ecologically conscious tourism. The desert is a landscape for heretics and visionaries, a place to go to feel the extremes of human experience and maybe alter one’s perspective. The writer Alex Ross found that two of his disparate obsessions—Death Valley and the architecture of Richard Neutra—met in the unusual village of Shoshone, California, population thirty-one, as of the 2010 census. The village is owned by a woman named Susan Sorrells, who lives in a house designed by Neutra, and who has dedicated herself, as Ross writes, to “seeking a mode of ecologically conscious living on the border between civilization and wilderness.” Can a town offer a design for life? Read Ross’s piece, which explores the challenges facing the modern desert landscape and reveals a long-held family secret about Sorrells’s grandfather, who helped establish Shoshone. —Michael Agger, culture editor, newyorker.com Read “The Queen of the Desert.” | | | | From the News Desk | The Political Scene Madison Cawthorn Builds His Own InsurrectionThe first-term congressman has attracted an ardent base both in North Carolina and nationally, but his extreme right-wing rhetoric is also drawing repudiations—and challengers—from within the G.O.P. By Peter Slevin | | Letter from Silicon Valley Money in the MetaverseIn a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird. By Anna Wiener | | Our Columnists The 2022 Economy Looks Strong, but Beware the Known UnknownsCOVID and policy changes could radically affect growth, inflation, and the midterm elections. By John Cassidy | | | | | Editor’s Picks |  Books How Politics Got So PolarizedIn a new era of hyperpartisan identities, can anything bring “us” and “them” together? By Elizabeth Kolbert | | | | | Culture Dept. | Q. & A. Terry Allen on the Texas Roots of His Music and ArtThe Lubbock native, outlaw-country veteran, and visual artist discusses what makes the Southwest different. By Rachel Monroe | | The Front Row “The Lost Daughter” Is Sluggish, Spotty, and a Major AchievementThe adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel, starring Olivia Colman, reflects the conventions of literary cinema while revealing what’s missing from movies at large. By Richard Brody | | The Current Cinema Cradles and Graves in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers”The Spanish director’s latest film, starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit, examines the traumas of his country’s history through the story of two women giving birth at the same time. By Anthony Lane | | | | | From the Archive |  Books The Secrets of SleepFrom 2017: Why do we need it, and are we getting enough? By Jerome Groopman | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Matt Jackson |  Daily Cartoon Tuesday, January 4th By Jeremy Nguyen | |  Daily Shouts Dear Pepper: Papa, Mama, Can You See Me? I️ wish I️ knew what they were thinking, parents. How do they not notice that their kids are individual human beings? Is it ever possible for them to learn? By Liana Finck |  Daily Shouts A Sibling’s Wedding Toast As soon as I saw how happy Groom or Bride made Bride or Groom, I knew that these two were going to be (and live) together forever. By Eddie Small | | | | | | P.S. Ketamine therapy is going mainstream. In case you missed it, Emily Witt wrote recently about the burgeoning use of the drug to treat mental-health disorders: “These days, the research and debate surrounding ketamine are less concerned with whether it can treat depression than with how it works, which delivery method makes it most effective, and how drug companies and health-care providers might best profit off a substance whose patent expired in the nineteen-eighties.” | | | | Today’s newsletter was edited by Ian Crouch. | | | | | | | |
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