This Week’s Issue: Janet Lansbury’s Gospel of Enlightened Parenting

Plus: Joshua Yaffa on Siberia’s dangerous thaw; Hilton Als profiles the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and Doreen St. Félix on “Yellowjackets.” View in browser | Update your preferences Family Life Janet Lansbury’s Gospel of Enlightened Parenting Should we treat infants more like adults? By Ariel Levy Onward and Upward with the Arts Hanya Yanagihara’s Audience of One As a fashion editor, she celebrates idiosyncratic forms of beauty. As a novelist, she explores dark themes of abuse and shame. In both cases, she’s worried only about pleasing herself. By D. T. Max Profiles The Metaphysical World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Movies The Thai director knows how to find the visually uncanny in the mundane. By Hilton Als Letter from Siberia The Great Siberian Thaw Permafrost contains microbes, mammoths, and twice as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere. What happens when it starts to melt? By Joshua Yaffa Comment Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s History Lessons King understood the nation’s challenges as part of a narrative. A narrow view of America’s past could imperil its future. By Jelani Cobb On Television Horror and Hormones, Grief and Gore, in “Yellowjackets” The survival drama operates in two time lines: the first is a riff on the themes of teen-age discovery, and the second is an exploration of the feminist dream deferred. By Doreen St. Félix Books A Holocaust Survivor’s Hardboiled Science Fiction Though he rarely discussed them, Stanisław Lem’s experiences in wartime Poland weighed on him and affected his stories. By Caleb Crain Books How the Chinese Language Got Modernized Faced with technological and political upheaval, reformers decided that Chinese would need to change in order to survive. By Ian Buruma Sketchpad Monuments to Trump’s Lost Cause January 6th reënactors, take note! The Colossus of Mar-a-Lago and the Petrified Skin Tag of Steve Bannon won’t let you down! By Bruce Handy Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs COVID’s Lesser Variants Don’t forget Epsilon, Nu, and the rest, which spread through: quicksand, sharing a kazoo, or talking about your liberal-arts degree. By Nate Odenkirk and Bob Odenkirk 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 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.