Watching Tucker Carlson for Work

Plus: the life and death of a Ukrainian photographer; a sixty-five-year-old book teaches us about A.I.; and the other blockbuster royals memoir. View in browser | Update your preferences Saturday, February 25, 2023 Annals of Communications Watching Tucker Carlson for Work According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don’t know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.” By Clare Malone Second Read What a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Book Teaches Us About A.I. Rereading an oddly resonant—and prescient—consideration of how computation affects learning. By David Owen Infinite Scroll The Supreme Court Probably Won’t Break the Internet—At Least for Now In Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, the Court considers whether the Web’s most foundational law still makes sense. By Kyle Chayka The New Yorker Radio Hour The Pandemic at Three: Who Got It Right? Can we fix the response to COVID-19 in a country that seems broken? Plus, Stephanie Hsu talks with Jia Tolentino about “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” With David Remnick Editor’s Pick Photo Booth The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer Maksim Levin started documenting war “to become famous.” After seeing conflict up close, his motivations shifted. By David Kortava Books We Recommend This Week Reviews of notable new fiction and nonfiction. This Other Eden, by Paul Harding (Norton). This historical novel takes inspiration from the formation, in the mid-nineteenth century—and, in 1912, the forced eviction—of a mixed-race fishing community on Malaga Island, Maine. Harding’s version is called Apple Island, and he movingly depicts the islanders’ dispossession. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. Daughter in Exile, by Bisi Adjapon (HarperVia). In this bildungsroman wrapped in a migrant story, Lola, a pregnant Ghanaian, travels to New York to join her fiancé, an American marine. After he ghosts her, she ends up near Washington, D.C., relying on the generosity of a succession of strangers and friends to navigate the harsh realities of life in the U.S. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. Young Bloomsbury, by Nino Strachey (Atria). This lively group biography offers an intimate glimpse of the Bright Young Things, the artistic coterie that emerged in the nineteen-twenties as successors to the prewar Bloomsburyites. Members included Eddy Sackville-West, a novelist and cousin of Virginia Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-West, and John Strachey, a journalist and cousin of Lytton Strachey. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. Morgenthau, by Andrew Meier (Random House). Opening in 1866 in New York with the arrival from Germany of Lazarus Morgenthau, a Bavarian Jew who’d lost a cigar empire to American tariffs, this book traces the ups and downs (but mostly ups) of the family’s fortunes over four generations, providing a window on a century and a half of the city’s history. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. The best books of 2023 so far What are you reading this week? Reply to let us know. Culture Dept. Second Read The Other Blockbuster Royals Memoir Before there was “Spare,” there was “The Heart Has Its Reasons” (1956), by Wallis Simpson. By Lauren Collins Fiction “The Last Grownup” “The paperwork was done, and it was weird and painful, like picking off a scab, because the marriage itself had ended two years before.” By Allegra Goodman This Week in Fiction Allegra Goodman on Babies, Dogs, and Exes The author discusses “The Last Grownup,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Cressida Leyshon Culture Desk Iris DeMent’s New Album Is a Sustained Political Statement “Workin’ on a World,” her first record of original material in more than a decade, calls on listeners to keep “building the beloved community.” By David Cantwell Fun & Games Dept. Name Drop Play the Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Liz Maynes-Aminzade Daily Shouts Your Dumb Little Advertising Tricks Won’t Work on Me Wow, can you believe all these features? Designed in the U.S.A.? Eco-friendly? And look at this packaging! Solid. Solid try, but no! By Justin Hook Shouts & Murmurs A G.P.S. Route for My Anxiety Dangerously CROSS THE STREET in the middle of the block to avoid the bodega where you embarrassed yourself last week by going in drunk. By Jesse Eisenberg 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.