Reading for the New Year
In today’s newsletter, good company for the winter, and then:
Illustration by Jun Cen
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
New Yorker writers and contributors on the books keeping them company this winter.
The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2024. The magazine’s writers also made their way through many other books—novels they had missed upon publication, long-out-of-print essay collections, classics that the passage of time had imbued with fresh meaning. Some of their favorites are below. Read the story »
The Lede
Downtown Bend, Oregon, which has transformed in recent decades as newcomers have flocked to the city.Photograph by Joe Kline / NYT / Redux
What Could Citizens’ Assemblies Do for American Politics?
An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up with ideas. Nick Romeo reports on the prospects for direct democracy. Read the story »
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“I think we should switch gears and have a group screaming session.”
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P.S. As you face down January, revisit “Out the Window,” a personal history by the poet Donald Hall. It begins in the wintry month and reflects on growing older in the house where generations of his family grew old before him. “When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing,” he writes. “It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.” 🪺
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