CORENEWS: July 2018

MOONVES SAFE -- FOR NOW...

MOONVES SAFE -- FOR NOW...

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Wife Doubles Down On Support...

Wife Doubles Down On Support...

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$300,000,000 ON THE LINE...

$300,000,000 ON THE LINE...

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AL FRANKEN: Haven't ruled out running again!

AL FRANKEN: Haven't ruled out running again!

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Richard Ford Reads “Displaced”

Deborah Treisman hosts the author Richard Ford, who reads his short story “Displaced,” from the August 6 & 13, 2018, issue of the magazine.

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What Is Rudy Giuliani Talking About?

John Cassidy writes about Rudy Giuliani’s recent appearances on Fox News and CNN, in which he discussed the forthcoming trial of Paul Manafort and Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia.

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We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained

Alan Burdick on the discovery of a new shape called the scutoid, which is common among cells in curved tissues.

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A Début Novel of Elderly Millennials, Afflicted with a Selective Strain of Self-Awareness

Katy Waldman reviews Andrew Martin’s début novel, “Early Work,” which is more than just elderly millennials “talking about books and having sex.”

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What New Orleans Tells Us About the Perils of Putting Schools on the Free Market

Gary Sernovitch writes about the charter-school system in New Orleans, which operates like a free market but is compromised in three key areas: an incomplete reward system, a fixed-price economy, and a half-finished funding model.

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Get Out and Vote

George Packer reports on how the midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump’s consolidation of power—and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn’t matter.

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Will the Senate Get Tough on Russia?

Senator Chris Van Hollen explains the bipartisan support for his bill, the DETER Act, co-sponsored by Marco Rubio, which is designed to impose crippling sanctions on Russia in response to its election meddling.

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The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It

Nathan Heller writes about the decline of Diet Coke, which has coincided, in part, with President Trump’s notorious obsession with the beverage.

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How to Get Over Getting Ghosted

Gabrielle Bell offers humorous advice on how to come to terms with a romantic interest who stops replying to your phone calls and texts.

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The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon

Amelia Lester on Bill Granger, the restaurateur who is most responsible for the Australian café’s global reach, and whose restaurant is said to have been the first to serve avocado toast.

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, July 30th

Brendan Loper’s Daily Cartoon shows Trump’s meeting with the New York Times.

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Trump vs. the Times: Inside an Off-the-Record Meeting

David Remnick writes about the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and the Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger.

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The Mail

Letters respond to Joshua Rothman’s article on whether the world is getting better or worse and Ruth Franklin’s analysis of Holocaust fiction for children.

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Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence

Deborah Treisman talks to Richard Ford about “Displaced,” his short story from the August 6, 2018, issue of The New Yorker.

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The Soullessness of “Straight White Men”

Young Jean Lee’s first Broadway play not only lacks the humor, recklessness, and passion of her earlier works; it refutes those things, writes Hilton Als.

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New York City’s Forgotten Muslim Past

A Ph.D. student offers a free Muslim-history walking tour in Donald Trump’s home town.

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Tom Gauld’s “On The Beach”

Françoise Mouly interviews Tom Gauld, the artist behind the cover for this week’s issue, which depicts New Yorkers enjoying a day at the beach.

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Israel Passes a Law Stating What’s Jewish About a “Jewish and Democratic State”

Bernard Avishai writes about Israel’s new national-state law, passed on July 19th by the Israeli Knesset, led by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. The law purports to codify what’s Jewish about a “Jewish and democratic state” but has drawn protest.

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Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco

Nathan Heller on what his family’s story says about a city of romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes.

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How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister

Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge? Patrick Radden Keefe writes.

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“Swallows”

Poetry by A. E. Stallings: “Every year the swallows come / And put their homestead in repair.”

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Nicole Holofcener’s Human Comedies

Ariel Levy on the director’s films, which find humor and poignancy in bad behavior.

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Trapped in the Garden with Parker Posey

At her new digs in the West Village, the actress and newly minted memoirist gets locked out.

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The Disturbing World of Jim Carrey’s Anti-Trump Cartoons

Holed up in his L.A. home, the actor sketches furiously, and watches lots of cable news.

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Cartoons from the August 6 & 13, 2018, Issue

Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine.

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How Jorge Barón Biza Turned His Family Tragedy Into Fiction

When Barón Biza wrote “The Desert and Its Seed,” he feared that its lurid backstory would dominate attention. But the work is strikingly of the moment.

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Our Gender-Reveal Party!

Shouts & Murmurs by Susanna Wolff: Join as we publicly learn, through a series of elaborate acts of increasingly violent destruction, the gender of my fetus.

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Hey, Where’s My Oat Milk?

Brooklyn residents embraced the non-dairy alternative. Then, one day, it was gone.

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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“An American Quilt,” “Unbound,” “Lion Cross Point,” and “Poso Wells.”

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Bomb in van kills 11 at checkpoint in Philippine south: army

A bomb exploded in a van and killed 11 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday in an attack that officials blamed on militants with ties to the Islamic State group.

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Greek PM meets survivors in fire-stricken town as families mourn dead

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met survivors of a wildfire that killed at least 91 people during his first visit to the town of Mati on Monday, as rescue teams kept recovering bodies and families mourned their dead.

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Democratic candidates embrace gun control despite political risks

Aftab Pureval, a Democrat seeking to unseat a Republican congressman in Ohio, knows the political risks in calling for gun restrictions – and taking on the powerful National Rifle Association, which has spent more than $115,000 supporting his opponent over the years.

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U.S. detects new activity at North Korea factory that built ICBMs: source

U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, in the midst of talks to compel Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms.

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