Revelations from the Science of Puppies

Plus: pandemic trade-offs; an interview with the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans; and the Amazon prequel to “The Lord of the Rings.” View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, September 18, 2022 Elements Peak Cuteness, and Other Revelations from the Science of Puppies A new book explores how dogs and people grow up together. By Rivka Galchen From the News Desk Comment Living with Our Pandemic Trade-Offs After two and a half years of COVID, we seem to have arrived at another judgment: the value of normalcy exceeds that of caution. By Dhruv Khullar Cultural Comment Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story. By James McAuley Editor’s Picks The New Yorker Interview Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness The photographer talks about his first MOMA retrospective and how his prescient art flows from the act of paying attention. By Emily Witt \ Profiles The Life and Art of Wolfgang Tillmans From 2018: For three decades, the photographer has explored the fragility of the political consensus on which his personal utopia depends. By Emily Witt Culture Dept. On Television “The Rings of Power” Is True to Tolkien’s Mythmaking Spirit The Amazon prequel to “The Lord of the Rings” keeps to the author’s romantic ideas about history. By Jo Livingstone \ Cultural Comment Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King” Viola Davis’s new feature is a rousing tribute to the world’s only all-female army. But how true is the story it tells? By Julian Lucas Crown Colony When the Anglophiles (and Skeptics) of New York Heard About the Queen’s Death Mourning Queen Elizabeth II, or not, with the lovers of pork-and-Stilton pies and Scotch eggs at a British specialty store in the West Village. By Adam Iscoe Poems “Dusk in Drought” “Tongues in dusk / are bats but I try / to remember / larks.” By Jorie Graham Poems “Dad Poem X” “At the orchard, we are stars set loose across the mind / of a boy in a field on his back, dreaming with both eyes open.” By Joshua Bennett Fun & Games Dept. Name Drop Play the Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Liz Maynes-Aminzade Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Puzzle Ruins where Vikings have explored?: four letters. By Patrick Berry Daily Shouts Handy Conversation Fillers and How to Deliver Them for Maximum Drama Words and phrases to deploy when you find yourself on the receiving end of a one-way exchange. By Rachel Deutsch Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. \ 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.