New Fiction by Curtis Sittenfeld—An Excerpt from President Obama’s Memoir—“What Were We Thinking”

Plus: experiments in audio theatre, and the Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.” View in browser | Update your preferences Fiction “A for Alone” “Before her lunch with Eddie Walsh, she writes: When did you last spend time alone with a woman who is not your wife?” By Curtis Sittenfeld This Week in Fiction Curtis Sittenfeld on Politics and Ambiguity The author discusses “A for Alone,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine. By Willing Davidson Fiction “Gender Studies” If you liked “A for Alone,” we think you will enjoy this story, from 2016. By Curtis Sittenfeld Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Daily Humor Newsletter Cartoons and more funny stuff in your in-box. Essays & Criticism Annals of the Presidency A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight The story behind the Obama Administration’s most enduring, and most contested, legacy: reforming American health care. By Barack Obama Page-Turner The Lessons of Reading Every Book About Trump In “What Were We Thinking,” Carlos Lozada revisits all the Trump books that he’s read since 2015: about a hundred and fifty titles, each purporting to illuminate the man and his times. By Katy Waldman More from The New Yorker The Theatre Experiments in Audio Theatre, Radical and Retro “A Thousand Ways” and “Shipwreck” suggest a vast realm of possibility available to playwrights making new work in the COVID-19 era. By Alexandra Schwartz Culture Desk All the Wrong Reasons to Remake “Rebecca” Daphne du Maurier’s story could have provided ground on which to explore issues of control, abuse, queer romance, and the terror of becoming a wife. But Netflix’s superficial, slapdash new adaptation isn’t interested. By Rachel Syme 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.