Will the G.O.P. Finally Make a Deal on Guns?

Plus: Kevin Morby in confessional mode; the tensions of modern Britain in “Jerusalem”; and a collection of memorable stories about fathers. View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, June 19, 2022 Comment Will the G.O.P. Finally Make a Deal on Guns? A bipartisan proposal offers Republicans the novel experience of running on a record of having acted to ease the gun crisis—if they can overcome their moral timidity. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Editor’s Picks Cultural Comment The Tensions of Modern Britain in Jez Butterworth’s “Jerusalem” The 2009 play, currently in revival, finds new resonance in a post-Brexit reality and with Boris Johnson hanging on at 10 Downing Street. By Rebecca Mead Double Take Sunday Reading: Fathers and Fatherhood A collection of memorable pieces about fathers and our relationships with them. By The New Yorker Video Dept. The New Yorker Documentary Dancing a Story of Love and Grief In William Armstrong’s “Unspoken,” the choreographer Paul Lightfoot creates a work that communicates one of the many goodbyes disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Film by William Armstrong Text by Hannah Aizenman Culture Dept. Dept. of Hyphenates Morby in Confessional Mode at Fotografiska The Kansas City rock musician talks about his new record, “This Is a Photograph,” which memorializes Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, and other legends who met with gruesome ends. By Hannah Seidlitz Field Trip Third Period, a Thousand Feet Over Brooklyn Gerard Renodo and his architecture-crazy high-school classmates finagled a private tour of the borough’s first supertall skyscraper. By John Seabrook Books Briefly Noted “Avalon,” “Love Marriage,” “Adriatic,” and “Fight Like Hell.” Poems “Figs” “Overnight the figs got moldy and look like little brains.” By Henri Cole Poems “O” “Everything / rose up for the first time.” By Mary Karr Fun & Games Dept. Name Drop Play the Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Matt Jackson Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Puzzle Spirit associated with liquid sodium, I notice: five letters. By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Daily Shouts Your Baby’s Developmental Milestones Your six-hundred-seventy-seven-week-old is now going through something your pediatrician calls “puberty.” By Nate Dern Blitt’s Kvetchbook Hang Mike Pence? Will history be written by the wimps? By Barry Blitt Thanks for reading. Let us know your thoughts about today’s edition. Plus, browse more newsletters and invite a friend to sign up for The Daily. You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Manage your preferences | View our Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.