| |  Fiction “Flashlight” “Such naked wanting to be wanted made Louisa’s mother even more repellent to Louisa than she generally was.” By Susan Choi | | |  This Week in Fiction Susan Choi on How Much She Can Leave Out The author discusses “Flashlight,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine. By Deborah Treisman |  Fiction “Fungus” If you liked “Flashlight,” we think you will enjoy this story, from 2018. By David Gilbert | | | Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Food Newsletter Get essays on food, restaurant reviews, and notes for the kitchen, all delivered to your in-box. | | | | | | Books Miss America’s History-Makers and Rule-Breakers For a century, women have conformed to, and rebelled against, the contest’s strictures. But are beauty pageants finally beyond redemption? By Lauren Collins | | | Books Inside Bernadette Mayer’s Time Capsule “Memory” is a fifty-year-old project, but its nostalgia for summers lost speaks uncannily to our moment. By Dan Chiasson | | | Personal History A House Is Not a Home In my mind, our money was time. It seemed like a waste to spend time on property. By Eula Biss | | | | | | Fiction Podcast David Gilbert Reads Samantha Hunt The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Three Days,” by Samantha Hunt, from a 2006 issue of the magazine. | | | | | |  A Critic at Large Is Staying In Staying Safe? Indoor life has its dangers, too, but building-design specialists have big plans for us. By Jill Lepore |  Culture Desk Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through the Pandemic? A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us. By Elif Batuman | | | | | | | | |
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