The New YorkerGeverifieerd account

Behold: an absurdly simple trick for choosing between "who" and "whom."http://nyer.cm/Ic1BWJQ 

As tuberculosis shaped modernism, so COVID-19 and our collective experience of staying inside for months on end will influence architecture’s near future.http://nyer.cm/9kuI4g7 

In a series of images, the photographer Jamie Diamond captures women mothering lifelike dolls, questioning the seemingly natural roles that women are made to play in society.http://nyer.cm/fpgkdPO 

Abigail Disney, the grandniece of Walt Disney, has a hypothesis about why rich people isolate themselves from society: “they know that something is inherently wrong with what they have,” she said.http://nyer.cm/CM6IMex 

“Avatar: The Last Airbender” engages directly with the perils of encroaching authoritarianism, and the inaction, inadequacy, and abuses of the bureaucrats and military leaders tasked with fighting it.http://nyer.cm/SvwBZaQ 

Shel Silverstein detested stories with happy endings. As he once put it, “The child asks, ‘Why don’t I have this happiness thing you’re telling me about?’ ”http://nyer.cm/E6mBkBv 

The authors Emma Cline, @GarthGreenwell, and Ottessa Moshfegh discussed what makes for good writing about sex in the latest installment of The New Yorker’s digital event series for subscribers. Watch highlights from their conversation here.http://nyer.cm/BZiAIEE 

On this week’s Politics and More podcast, @benwallacewells discusses the conservative furor over critical race theory, and how to understand the current rethinking of the country’s past. Listen here.http://nyer.cm/FTgnI9x 

On July 1st, the World Health Organization reported a 10-per-cent increase in coronavirus cases across Europe in the previous week, seeded, at least partly, by people going to stadiums and bars. Why is Euro 2020 still happening?http://nyer.cm/xDgtzoH 

Somewhere between 1.5 billion and 2.4 billion planets in our galaxy could, in theory, harbor life. When will we encounter it—if we haven’t already?http://nyer.cm/qkVuFjN 

In 1971, the @nytimes’ editorial page described New York City’s Board of Elections as being “at best a semi‐functioning anachronism.” The description still applies, @ericlach writes. This week, the whole country found out why.http://nyer.cm/uufGpMQ 

For centuries the violin has been an object of near-religious devotion. Not for the proprietor of the Instagram account @violintorture.http://nyer.cm/Sg4d1vS 

What does omnipresent information do to our minds?http://nyer.cm/K8se9md 

By the 1950s, the signs of hopelessness were everywhere: racism, the threat of nuclear war, stunted social movements. In response, during the next four decades, Sun Ra released more than 100 albums of visionary jazz.http://nyer.cm/OHd2pvX 

Louis Menand unpacks the little-known history of the three women’s-rights champions who helped get the “sex” provision into the Civil Rights Act, which was signed on this day in 1964.http://nyer.cm/MSXwA7v 

“Even if the power-holders might appear to succeed, freedom itself will remain irrepressible. Power can never unseat truth,” the political commentator Lee Yee said, in a tribute to Apple Daily. He had been involved with the paper since its inception.http://nyer.cm/C9VNhVX 

For Karina Longworth, the most salacious or conspiratorial version of Hollywood gossip is often the least likely to be true, but the reasons that people believe it are almost always worth exploring.http://nyer.cm/lH6ntZC 

Once complete, the Florida Wildlife Corridor would create an unbroken swath of preserved land from the Alabama state line all the way to the Florida Keys. The project could encompass 18 million acres, which is about half of Florida’s total area.http://nyer.cm/GjUR9Ew 

In which @hannahgoldfield drinks a glass of wine that she has thought of “lovingly, and longingly, many times since.”http://nyer.cm/vJiCGni