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Saidiya Hartman’s latest book, “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments,” blends history and fiction to chronicle the sexual and gender rebellions of young Black women in the 20th century.http://nyer.cm/bgYKTrf 

Does the leadership of the Republican Party regard the possibility of President Trump’s leaving the White House with a certain private relish?http://nyer.cm/4bfLdnf 

“It feels like we won the World Cup for the first time and defeated Fascism in the same day,” one of the people celebrating Joe Biden’s victory outside of the White House said.http://nyer.cm/eAk3yPe 

The most stringent laws for the disenfranchisement of citizens with criminal convictions are found in states with many potential voters of color. In Tennessee, a fifth of African-Americans are barred from voting.http://nyer.cm/fH0zZ63 

A missive from 1960, shortly after John F. Kennedy was elected, in which Richard H. Rovere writes, "There is a sense in which Senator Kennedy’s victory in the Presidential election appears, in retrospect, to be a feat of extraordinary magnitude."http://nyer.cm/E4EZfKy 

If Kamala Harris runs for President again in four years, it’ll be almost as an incumbent, @danagoodyear writes. Her time, in many senses, begins now.http://nyer.cm/Ed6LVB8 

For both the faithful and the doubtful, the source of religious experience can seem mysterious. One anthropologist explores belief in more mundane terms—as a form of expertise.http://nyer.cm/s400OZR 

A decade ago, the electronic musicians behind Salem brought new energy to a corner of the indie-music world that had gone slack. Then they disappeared from sight.http://nyer.cm/Jx677Id 

Over several years of studying American evangelicals—worshipping and praying with them, joining Bible-study groups, and reporting on their daily spiritual practice—an anthropologist found that communing with God is a skill, requiring talent and training.http://nyer.cm/xACjSZI 

One Jewish chaplain wrote in June, 1945, “Did our leaders plan on the basis of the fact that no Jews would be alive?”http://nyer.cm/OupLqoA 

Jill Lepore looks to the 1930s—the last time democracy in America seemed so fraught—for insights into our moment. Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.http://nyer.cm/RmKw1cq 

“American democracy was on the ballot on Election Day,” David Remnick writes. “American democracy won.”http://nyer.cm/YPuMT4U 

In his victory speech, Joe Biden demonstrated a faith that American unity and greatness are still with us, in some latent way.http://nyer.cm/oisRtO4 

From a profanity-filled restaurant scrapbook to a multi-thousand-page set of culinary lab notes, 10 of the best cookbooks of the 21st century.http://nyer.cm/lwf0pcf 

“Most stolen-valor cases don’t involve master criminals but, rather, average men who want to be treated as if they were extraordinary.” @rachmonroe on military imposters and the people who track them down.http://nyer.cm/hZAL3nY 

After Bill Buford had given up on ratatouille for many years, he learned a new recipe in a French kitchen. "I liked this one so much that I have made it every summer thereafter, without fail," he writes.http://nyer.cm/UfhMBKo 

In 2018, Dollar General’s C.E.O. received more than $10 million in total compensation, nearly 800 times the median pay for workers at the company.http://nyer.cm/Pv9nLJd 

A recent book details three scenarios in which President Trump could lose the election but not step down.http://nyer.cm/oBihNW3 

The film “Ammonite,” starring Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet, may not be historically accurate, but it feels emotionally grounded, Anthony Lane writes.http://nyer.cm/Je8Bv4n