This Week’s Issue: The True-Crime Expert Who Was a Fake

Plus: Rachel Syme profiles Natasha Lyonne; Andrew Solomon on the rise of child suicide; and Ian Frazier on the literature of cabin fever. View in browser | Update your preferences Dept. of Criminology The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story. By Lauren Collins Onward and Upward with the Arts In “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne Barrels Into the Past How the actress turned showrunner took on inherited trauma through time travel. By Rachel Syme A Reporter at Large The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide A family tragedy sheds light on a burgeoning mental-health emergency. By Andrew Solomon Books How Everyone Got So Lonely The recent decline in rates of sexual activity has been attributed variously to sexism, neoliberalism, and women’s increased economic independence. How fair are those claims? By Zoë Heller Comment What Do We Do About COVID Now? America’s battle with the pandemic has been more damaging than we like to think. And it is still going on. By Dhruv Khullar Notebook The Literature of Cabin Fever How lockdown fits into the canon, from the Mad Trapper of Rat River to Huckleberry Finn and “The Shining.” By Ian Frazier Books How Ireland Took On the Church and Freed Its Soul A nation learned to dodge God’s law in everything from biscuits to birth control, until religious doublethink became an agent of its own undoing. By James Wood The Art World A Coherent and Bold Whitney Biennial Delayed for a year by the pandemic, the show is exciting without being especially pleasurable—it’s geared toward thought. By Peter Schjeldahl The Theatre Husbands and Wives in “Plaza Suite” The real-life spouses Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick play three different couples in a new Broadway production of Neil Simon’s trio of one-act plays, from 1968, at the Hudson Theatre. By Vinson Cunningham Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Listen to Your Mother! The massive tsunami wave looming above us is no reason to selfishly deny your parents a grandchild. By Hallie Cantor 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.