This Week’s Issue: Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

Plus: Rebecca Mead on Prince Harry’s memoir, the Getty family’s trust issues, and the Murdaugh murders. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Innovation Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis? Standard construction can be slow, costly, and inefficient. Machines might do it better. By Rachel Monroe This Week’s Cover Cover Story “Daybreak” Pascal Campion, the artist of this week’s cover, discusses creativity, solitude, and certain slants of light. By Françoise Mouly Shop covers from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » Reporting and Commentary Letter from South Carolina The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an élite family offered a feeling of impunity. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraud—and then kill his wife and son? By James Lasdun A Reporter at Large The Getty Family’s Trust Issues Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets. By Evan Osnos Profiles The Raucous Assault of Tala Madani’s Art The Iranian American artist is a rarity: a wildly imaginative innovator with a gift for caricature and visual satire. By Calvin Tomkins Comment Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans’ Rocky Road Ahead With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The Critics Books The Haunting of Prince Harry Electrified by outrage—and elevated by a gifted ghostwriter—his blockbuster memoir “Spare” exposes more than Harry’s enemies. By Rebecca Mead Books Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism? Literature departments seem to provide a haven for studying books, but they may have painted themselves into a corner. By Merve Emre Books The Victorian Reformers Who Defended Same-Sex Desire Confronting severe legal and social sanction, they sought to change the culture. A scholar and a novelist return us to a hinge of history. By Nikhil Krishnan On Television Road-Tripping Through a Post-Apocalyptic America in “The Last of Us” The HBO drama, based on a video game, works best as a post-catastrophe travelogue, teasing out the ways survivors rebuild mini-societies with new alignments of power. By Inkoo Kang Fiction from the Issue Fiction “Wednesday’s Child” “ ‘Never argue’ was Rosalie’s motto; especially, never argue with the dead.” By Yiyun Li Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Life Is Too Short Why not spend it mired in regret, eating defrosted turnip soup, or washing used ziplock bags? By Cora Frazier Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. Crossword A Moderately Challenging Puzzle Bean that can be used to make falafel: four letters. By Patrick Berry Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Liz Maynes-Aminzade More from The New Yorker Our Local Correspondents The Mayor and the Con Man Eric Adams’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader. By Eric Lach Notes on Hollywood Todd Field’s Long Road to “Tár” The writer-director returns to the big screen after a sixteen-year absence. Plus: how Lydia Tár (maybe) earned her EGOT. By Michael Schulman 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 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.