The Ghosts of Prince Harry’s “Spare”

Plus: UPS and the fight for the middle class; a message for the Federal Reserve; and Korea’s master self-taught artist. View in browser | Update your preferences Friday, January 13, 2023 In today’s newsletter, the human side of the delivery economy, and then: • The haunting of Prince Harry • What the Fed should do about inflation now • A master self-taught artist tells Korea’s story UPS and the Package Wars The company offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming? Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker Jennifer Gonnerman’s piece in this week’s issue—about the coming contract negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters union, which represents three hundred and fifty thousand of the company’s workers—is one of those journalistic marvels about a very specific thing that also manages to be about everything: how our modern economy benefits people and fails them, and how we live today. It’s a story of how a company runs and how a well-known but perhaps underconsidered job actually gets done; what a corporation owes to its employees and what its employees owe to their bosses, one another, and themselves; and whether various stakeholders, from investors and C.E.O.s to union leaders and part-time workers, can align on a way of doing business that will keep a large company like UPS—and, by extension, our wider shared enterprises more generally—moving forward. Read the story Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » Editor’s Pick Books The Haunting of Prince Harry Electrified by outrage—and elevated by a gifted ghostwriter—Harry’s blockbuster memoir “Spare” exposes more than his enemies. By Rebecca Mead From the News Desk Dispatch Cleaning Up After the Bolsonaristas in Brasília President Lula’s government spent the week reassuring Brazilians that the threat of a coup had been contained. By Emily Witt Our Columnists A Message for the Federal Reserve in the New Inflation Data As a new report shows price pressures easing, should the central bank rethink its strategy of raising interest rates? By John Cassidy Daily Comment The Investigations of Joe Biden Begin A new Republican House subcommittee and a new special counsel pose more of a political threat to the President than a legal one. By David Rohde Now available: “The January 6th Report,” with a foreword by David Remnick and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin. Order your copy from Amazon or Bookshop. Culture Dept. Culture Desk The Self-Taught Artist Whose Work Tells the History of Modern Korea Oh U-Am’s paintings depict working-class life in this century and last, yet seem to exist in the timeless space of allegory. By E. Tammy Kim The Front Row “Saint Omer,” Reviewed: A Harrowing Trial Inspires a Complex, Brilliant Film At the heart of Alice Diop’s stunning courtroom drama, about a woman who is charged with infanticide, is the power of language to spark imagination. By Richard Brody Screening Room Screening Room Siblings Grapple with Grief and Relocation in “Further and Further Away” A brother and sister whose village was destroyed to make way for a hydropower dam struggle to find a balance between honoring their past and looking to their future. Film by Polen Ly Text by Waverly Colville Fun & Games Dept. Blitt’s Kvetchbook Keeping George Santos Honest Part 1 of seven thousand and twelve. By Barry Blitt Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger Daily Shouts I Live in the City from the Car Commercials There is no one here, save for me, the witness. Me and the Driver. By River Clegg Crossword A Themed Puzzle: Pocket Money Quite the sum: eight letters. By Lynn Lempel Daily Cartoon Friday, January 13th By David Sipress P.S. On this day in 1968, Johnny Cash played two shows for the inmates at Folsom Prison, in California, which were recorded for a live album released later that year. Casey Cep has written about Cash’s decision to play a song there written by a Folsom prisoner named Glen Sherley, and the complicated relationship that the two men shared in the years that followed. Today’s newsletter was written by Ian Crouch. 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 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.