This Week’s Issue: The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Also in the Innovation & Tech Issue: Rebecca Mead on wooden skyscrapers, and Kelefa Sanneh on Fivio Foreign. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Innovation The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization? By Matthew Hutson A Reporter at Large How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it. By Ronan Farrow Onward and Upward with the Arts Transforming Trees Into Skyscrapers In Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building towers with pillars of pine and spruce. By Rebecca Mead Our Local Correspondents Fivio Foreign’s Big Move He made his name rapping about gang warfare. Can he go mainstream? By Kelefa Sanneh Comment If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What’s Next? After building toward such a moment for half a century, pro-life legal efforts aren’t likely to stop there. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Books Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels As the writer counts honors and advances—and keeps tabs on rivals, lovers, and detractors—the drive to succeed is the drive to survive. By Lauren Michele Jackson Pop Music Arcade Fire Goes Back to an Old Sound for Its New Record On “WE,” the band returns to the exhilarating anthems that once made its live shows resemble tent revivals. By Amanda Petrusich On Television “Severance” Is Sci-Fi for the Soul The dystopian drama on Apple TV+ takes the conceit of leaving one’s work at the office to its ultimate conclusion. By Naomi Fry The Theatre Jamie Lloyd’s Minimalist Hip-Hop “Cyrano de Bergerac” A new staging, starring James McAvoy, gives us rappers instead of rapiers. By Alexandra Schwartz Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Mario, Not So Super at Forty Decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head takes its toll. Sorry, Princess, it’s spinal-fusion time. By Simon Rich 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.