| | | | | A week of conversations with people of note.  “An in-depth conversation between a skillful interviewer and a worthy subject can yield a literary work of its own,” our editors write, in the introduction to our first digital-only issue, this week. Since launching as a regular online feature, in 2018, The New Yorker Interview has aspired to bring readers the same sense of discovery and pleasure as the best pieces of magazine writing. But, unlike journalism written by a single person, a conversation is a pas de deux, and it’s from the exchange between interviewer and interviewee that the most surprising moments arise. David Remnick observes that the goings on in Congress look like a “shit show,” and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has to agree. Asked by our media columnist Clare Malone about his coming retirement as the executive editor of the Times, Dean Baquet feigns a hearing problem. In the midst of talking to the rock-and-roll icon Stevie Nicks, Tavi Gevinson produces a question from her friend Lorde. Jia Tolentino and the writer Candace Bushnell exchange notes on feminism—and Botox. The late composer Stephen Sondheim put it best, during his series of conversations with D. T. Max: “My idea is that every moment of human intercourse—like right now, between you and me—there are sixty-four of you in this room and sixty-four of me in this room that we bring into a conversation. So every sentence we say, any intercourse we have, is so filled with layers . . .” We’ll publish new pieces each day, so we hope you’ll visit throughout the week. —Rachel Arons, senior culture editor, newyorker.com | | | | From the Interviews Issue |  The New Yorker Interview Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an Insider Now?After three years in the halls of power, she’s seen the “shit show” up close—and hasn’t given up on her vision for how to change it. By David Remnick | | | | | The New Yorker Interview Stephen Sondheim’s Lasting WisdomAs he worked on his final musical, the legendary composer discussed the ideas he’d abandoned, the minutiae of his technique, and the lesson that any artist must learn. By D. T. Max | | Photo Booth Teen Lives, Interrupted by COVIDYoung New Yorkers grapple with the pandemic’s mental toll. By Rebecca Mead | | | | | From the News Desk |  Dispatch As Washington Predicts a Russian Invasion, the Mood in Kyiv Is Alarmed and Aggrieved Ukraine is in the position that it has so resolutely tried to avoid: trapped between the irreconcilable power struggles of other states. By Joshua Yaffa |  Currency How a Young Couple Failed to Launder Billions of Dollars in Stolen Bitcoin The case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan describes a big crime followed by a series of frustrations. By Ed Caesar | |  The Sporting Scene The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Super Bowl The Rams beat the Bengals, Meadow and A. J. Soprano were reunited, and the N.F.L. hoped that everyone would forget the league’s problems for one night. By Ian Crouch |  Culture Desk Rap Takes Center Stage at the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show Sunday night’s performance—featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar—was one of the best in recent memory. By Amanda Petrusich | | | | | From the Editor’s Desk | | Rachel Arons shares some of her other favorite moments from the digital issue: Most unexpected answer: I think readers will be as surprised as I was to discover Stevie Nicks’s favorite movie. Most moving answer: The writer Min Jin Lee is wrenchingly self-aware when describing the disappointment of arriving in America with her family as a young girl. Funniest answer: Edward Steed was one of the cartoonists who eavesdropped around New York City for our Overheard series. I’m still laughing thinking about the commentary he picked up among visitors at the Central Park Zoo. Best interview location: At the age of eighty-four, David Hockney is as alive as ever with ideas about art and image-making. It’s a privilege to accompany Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, on her trip to Hockney’s home studio in Normandy. | | | | Culture Dept. |  Postscript Lata Mangeshkar’s Unwavering Bollywood Melodies The legendary singer, who died last week at the age of ninety-two, had a career that spanned the history of popular Hindi film. By Mayukh Sen |  The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine Kate Folk Reads “Out There” In a special episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, the author reads her story from the March 23, 2020, issue of the magazine. | | | | | Upcoming Interviews | | Check out the digital issue here. - Stevie Nicks interviewed by Tavi Gevinson, on Tuesday
- Angélique Kidjo interviewed by Julian Lucas, on Wednesday
- Min Jin Lee interviewed by Michael Luo, on Thursday
- Patricia Lockwood interviewed by Deborah Treisman, on Friday
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., interviewed by David Remnick, on Saturday
- Bill de Blasio interviewed by Eric Lach, on Sunday
| | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Liz Maynes-Aminzade |  Daily Cartoon Monday, February 14th By Emily Flake | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Many a little black dress: six letters. By Kameron Austin Collins |  Daily Shouts A Valentine for My Fifth-Grade Crush It was time to give out our cards. By Daryl Seitchik | | | | | | 🍑 P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day. Tonight, why not try cooking something in the shape of a heart? As Helen Rosner writes, “The origins of the heart shape as a symbol of love are unclear, but one theory holds that the inspiration was not the eponymous organ but the curved and tapered shape of a lovely human ass. A peach, obviously, is also an ass; therefore, syllogistically, it is a heart.” | | | | Today’s newsletter was edited by Ian Crouch and Jessie Li. | | | | | | | |
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