This Week’s Issue: The Medical Miracle of a Pig’s Heart in a Human Body

Plus: Jon Lee Anderson on the Taliban; Dorothy Wickenden on Wendell Berry; and Jia Tolentino on the threats to Roe v. Wade. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Medicine The Medical Miracle of a Pig’s Heart in a Human Body The first successful transplantation may solve a donor shortage, but this major scientific advancement is not without challenges. By Rivka Galchen A Reporter at Large The Taliban Confront the Realities of Power They fought for decades to retake Afghanistan, but promises of a new start are already colliding with internal divisions and external opposition. By Jon Lee Anderson Profiles Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward. By Dorothy Wickenden On and Off the Avenue A Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Everything Once you’ve thanked and said goodbye to the items that do not spark joy, what can you do with them? By Patricia Marx Comment Another Risk in Overturning Roe The decision rejects the idea of fetal personhood—which anti-abortion groups have been pushing on state legislatures. By Jia Tolentino A Critic at Large Aleshea Harris Stages Black Life The playwright explores the myths of community, love, and violence. By Hilton Als Books The Novelist Yoko Tawada Conjures a World Between Languages Tawada explores borderlands in which people and words have lost their moorings. By Julian Lucas The Theatre Broken Contracts in “The Merchant of Venice” and “Wolf Play” Arin Arbus’s revisionist interpretation of the Shakespeare play and Hansol Jung’s new work at SoHo Rep both fixate on legal and theatrical fictions. By Vinson Cunningham On Television A Crisis of Fanhood and Faith in “We Need to Talk About Cosby” W. Kamau Bell’s Showtime series seems motivated by a feeling of guilt that we all inadvertently provided an alibi for a bully who actually despised us. By Doreen St. Félix Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Crossword-Puzzle Newsletter Never miss another New Yorker crossword again. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Dear Ethicist, I’ve Planted Two Bombs Which bus will you save? The one carrying the conflicted heir to a tobacco fortune? Or the one carrying the transmasculine aide to an Alabama legislator? By Dennard Dayle 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.