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A 2017 book by Esther Perel argues for a more compassionate understanding of our unruly desires.http://nyer.cm/ncSyA6a 

“Surface Tension,” a photo project, carries a reminder of the defamiliarizing way that our phones see us. “These devices could—and essentially do—produce a meticulous daily record of what we saw, where we lingered,” @jiatolentino writes.http://nyer.cm/O9CAm6z 

In a newly translated novel, the narrator, an urban rambler, calls New York “a city of zombies glued to cell phone screens.” Has the age of flânerie—idle, observant walking—passed?http://nyer.cm/XnXFk6j 

“His verbal vagaries add a new thrill to life. His mispronunciations are mythopoeic. His slips of the tongue are oracular.” Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov, from 1955.http://nyer.cm/I5N5T2m 

“Jennifer’s Body” is a movie whose details risk getting lost in the hectic, gore-filled fury of its action, @tnyfrontrow writes. “But the understatement and submergence of its details are themselves a part of the story.”http://nyer.cm/2Xffg9P 

“Food preferences are highly local, often irrational, and defining,” Dana Goodyear writes. But daintiness about consuming insects has true consequences. Revisit her 2011 report on the potential of bug-eating.http://nyer.cm/UlNqfu0 

The Texas abortion law is not only a radical departure from convention, it’s a repudiation of due process. A more judicious Court would have halted the implementation of the Texas law for this reason alone, @suehalpernVT writes.http://nyer.cm/CcWfINB 

“Cooking is to our literature what sex was to the writing of the 1960s and 1970s,” Adam Gopnik wrote, in 2007: “the thing worth stopping the story for to share, so to speak, with the reader.”http://nyer.cm/CdwtKmr 

.@billmckibben stresses the importance of mass organizing, although he does not relish the idea of doing so: “Why must we fight so hard, even go to jail, in order to get our leaders to take more seriously the clear and unequivocal warnings of scientists?”http://nyer.cm/qJLcuR1 

The steel-and-cast-aluminum “Disease Thrower” series by the New York-based artist Guadalupe Maravilla incorporates gongs, which the 44-year-old artist plays in his capacity as a vibrational healer, transforming works of art into therapeutic instruments.http://nyer.cm/gmurezB 

“If you’ve seen this film, then you’ve seen . . . a part of me.” On #NewYorkerRadio this week, Riz Ahmed discusses his new film, “Mogul Mowgli,” which he co-wrote. Listen here.http://nyer.cm/kNiqv1q 

Growing up in the United States, Jenny Liao suppressed her first language, Cantonese, in an effort to blend in and feel more American. “This didn’t actually work; instead, I felt a diminished sense of both identities,” she writes.http://nyer.cm/Ca8zBmp 

“Hey, lady, where’ve you been?” A letter from all the shoes you left to languish in the office.http://nyer.cm/ZdKNxp2 

How did you do? Bookmark our Puzzles & Games Dept. hub to stay up to date on all of our Name Drop quizzes.http://nyer.cm/jEmnUWz 

Two pieces of excellent news: it’s Friday, and we have a fresh new quiz ready for you. Cap off the week with a perfect score.http://nyer.cm/0h7VkAM 

In Simone de Beauvoir’s abandoned novel “The Inseparables,” the distinction between friends and lovers, straight love and queer love, pales before the difference between loving a friend who is alive and one who is dead, @mervatim writes.http://nyer.cm/OnlOYdb 

“Seen from New York City, his feudal preoccupations must appear so crude, and he imagined her pitiless and dared not speak of his vulnerability.” Read a new novella by Daniyal Mueenuddin.http://nyer.cm/MYvqa0P