This Week’s Issue: Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future?

Plus: The Mormon housewife behind “Go Ask Alice”, and Amy Davidson Sorkin on the January 6th Commission's case against Trump. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from the Donbas The Desperate Lives Inside Ukraine’s “Dead Cities” Since Russia shifted its vicious invasion to the east, ordinary people trapped on the front lines have faced missile storms and starvation—and have no source of help except one another. By Luke Mogelson Cover Story Cover Story “Central Park Lark” For the cover of this week’s issue, the artist Sergio García Sánchez discusses art as a family affair and what he hopes to teach young artists. By Françoise Mouly Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store. » Reporting and Commentary The Political Scene Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult? Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond. By Dan Kaufman Brave New World Dept. Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future? Two tech-minded brothers are testing the market on themselves. By Nathan Heller Annals of a Warming Planet Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave In hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous. By Dhruv Khullar Comment What Will Come of the January 6th Committee’s Case Against Trump? The committee continued to establish the ex-President’s culpability in events related to January 6th. The bigger issue may be how to hold him accountable. By Amy Davidson Sorkin The Critics A Critic at Large How a Mormon Housewife Turned a Fake Diary Into an Enormous Best-Seller “Go Ask Alice” sold millions of copies and became a TV movie, but its true provenance was a secret. By Casey Cep Books The Reclusive Giant of Australian Fiction Gerald Murnane’s new book, billed as his last, surveys the rest of his output. By Merve Emre The Theatre Daniel Fish’s Latest Experiment, “Most Happy in Concert” At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the director, whose radically reimagined “Oklahoma!” was an emphatic Broadway hit, turns to Frank Loesser’s 1956 musical. By Vinson Cunningham The Current Cinema “Nope” Is a Wild but Self-Aware Mashup of Sci-Fi and Westerns The spaceship in Jordan Peele’s film absorbs material and then spews it out, an apt metaphor for the director’s follow-up to “Get Out” and “Us.” By Anthony Lane Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Are Mice People? An ambitious new study looks at which species is really running on those metal wheels. By Cora Frazier Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Life-form that reddens Senegal’s Lac Rose: five letters. By Natan Last Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger More from the New Yorker On and Off the Avenue How to Relive the Pleasures of a Landline With the help of an old rotary phone and a Bluetooth-hookup doodad, you, too, can feel like Rock Hudson gabbing in the bathtub. By Rachel Syme Annals of Education How the Federalist Society Won The conservative legal movement was pivotal in getting Roe v. Wade overturned. But does it have any control over what happens next? By Emma Green 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 This Week's Issue 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.