New Yorker Today

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/158ac4142fce1115

News Desk Postscript: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 Fidel Castro, more than any other political leader in recent memory, had the stature of a living myth in his own country. By Jon Lee Anderson Elements Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis When Cape Cod’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station closes, in 2019, it will still be home to some eight hundred tons of spent fuel. By Gregg Levine and Caroline Preston

Currency The Adorable Ads that Are About to Invade Your Text Messages The prospect of seeing advertising in a space we use to talk to our friends and relatives might sound dismaying, but others argue that it’s just fun. By Jia Tolentino Fiction The Hanging of the Schoolmarm “The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.” By Robert Coover