Books & Fiction: Misremembering the British Empire

Plus: what Tecumseh fought for, a strange 1929 novel about an epidemic, and remembering Daniel Menaker. View in browser | Update your preferences Books Misremembering the British Empire How did the British become so blinkered about their nation’s imperial history? By Maya Jasanoff Essays & Criticism Books What Tecumseh Fought For Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world. By Philip Deloria Second Read “I Burn Paris” and the Temptation of Newly Topical Fiction Bruno Jasieński’s strange novel about an epidemic, from 1929, is a beguiling and disorienting read in 2020. By Pasha Malla Books Briefly Noted “The Next Great Migration,” “Max Jacob,” “Silence Is My Mother Tongue,” and ”The Cold Millions.” Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Daily Humor Newsletter Cartoons and more funny stuff in your in-box. Poetry Poems “The Old Land” “Life and death were simple and whole, / No need for explanation, let alone hope.” By Aleksandar Hemon Poems “The Great Beauty” “Why can’t I // take evidence seriously?” By Toi Derricotte The Writer’s Voice The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone” The author reads her story from the November 2, 2020, issue of the magazine. More from The New Yorker Postscript Remembering Daniel Menaker, a Lighthearted Champion of His Writers The editor spent a quarter century at The New Yorker, where younger staffers recognized a kindred soul. By Charles McGrath Kitchen Notes A Lifetime of Pancakes, and Jamaican Banana Fritters Hotcakes have been a boon to me this past year, as I’ve shifted my home cooking to maximize every haul from the grocery store. By Bryan Washington This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.