| | | | | In today’s newsletter, Nathan Heller on why details didn’t matter in this election. But, first, moonlight on canvas, and then: • Donald Trump’s controversial pick for Defense Secretary
• How Elon Musk rebranded Trump
• Is the twentieth-century novel a genre? | | | | | In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.  Photograph by Alice Mann for The New Yorker The thirty-one-year-old, “ultra-contemporary” British artist Jadé Fadojutimi makes vibrant, large-scale paintings, “intricate works that shimmer on the boundary between abstract and figurative,” Rebecca Mead writes, in a piece from this week’s issue. Iridescent arcs and urgent lines mix in among the contours of earthly elements. “Fadojutimi’s swirling images seem to capture a state of mind as much as they do a state of nature—they are always energetic, and sometimes ecstatic, blooming into color and motion and light,” Mead observes. “Her paintings invite entry. They are an alternative place to dwell.”  Crop of an untitled new work. | Art work © Jadé Fadojutimi / Courtesy the artist and Gagosian / Photograph by Mark Blower Fadojutimi had her first solo show at the age of twenty-four and, since then, her success has skyrocketed. She is fashionable, inspired by textiles and patterns, and proficient in Japanese, spending a couple months in the country each winter. Mead visits her light-filled, plant-filled studio in South East London, to see the paintings currently on view at the Gagosian gallery in New York, and watches the artist at work. When Fadojutimi steps back from the canvas, Mead asks her how she feels. “I feel like I want a cigarette,” she says. “I feel refreshed. I feel like I just had a shower.” | | | | | The Lede | Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today.  Photograph by Natalie Behring / Getty It probably wasn’t Kamala Harris’s personal shortcomings, or a lack of detailed policy goals and fact-filled speeches, that cost her the Presidency. Nathan Heller argues that it was Donald Trump’s ability to use ambient information. Perceptions, even those immediately disprovable, became fixed in the voting public’s mind. “Detail, even when it’s available, doesn’t travel widely after all,” Heller explains. “Big, sloppy notions do.” Read the story » | | | | | Our journalism relies on your support. If you believe in fearless, fair, and fact-checked reporting, please subscribe today. | | | | From the News Desk |  The Lede Pete Hegseth’s Path from Campus Provocateur to “Fox & Friends” to the PentagonNo decision more clearly reveals Donald Trump’s disdain for his country’s armed forces than his selection of the TV host as his Secretary of Defense. By Marc Fisher | | | | | Kyle Chayka | |  Illustration by Ariel Davis Elon Musk held an outsized sway over Donald Trump’s campaign for President, and he may carry that influence into the new Administration. “For fans of Musk’s techno-accelerationist vision,” Kyle Chayka writes, “the Trumpian alliance amounts to the dawning of a bold new political era.” What will it mean for those of us not ensconced in Silicon Valley? Read the column » Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s column on the people and platforms that are shaping digital culture, publishes every Wednesday. | | | | | | Culture Dept. |  A Critic at Large Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe. By Louis Menand | | | | |  | If you know someone who would enjoy this newsletter, please share it. Was it forwarded to you? Sign up. | | | | Editor’s Picks | The Art World The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo ConventionThe art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another. By Jackson Arn | | The New Yorker Documentary “Goodbye, Morganza” Follows the Legacy of a Black Family’s Property LossThis short documentary explores how the filmmaker’s great-grandparents lost the house they had owned since 1892, and the impact of that loss on generations of her family. Film by Devon Blackwell | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Crossword A Beginner-friendly Puzzle Michelangelo, Monet, and Morisot: seven letters. By Caitlin Reid |  Daily Cartoon Wednesday, November 13th By Christopher Weyant | | | | | | P.S. You might remember Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota who has been nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration, as the woman who killed her family dog, Cricket. But did you also know that she wants to duel the Aflac duck? Emily Zauzmer imagines this and other humorous, hypothetical revelations from Noem’s biography. 🦆 | | | | Today’s newsletter was written by Hannah Jocelyn. | | | | | | | |
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