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From: NYTimes.com <nytdirect@nytimes.com> To: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: The New York Times Magazine: The Death of Michael Deng Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:04:12 +0000 View in Browser Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. RThe New York Times IThe New York Times Thursday. August 10. 2017 NYTimes.com » "That final walk, in which the pledge is shepherded to his Big by all of the fraternity's members, is intended to teach him that solidarity with his fellow Asians is his only hope of making it in a white world," Jay Caspian Kang writes in this week's cover story, about a violent fraternity hazing and the search for Asian- American identity. The death of Michael Deng, 19, during a ritual meant to connect him with his Asian fraternity brothers, reveals much about how fraught that search can be. Elsewhere in the magazine, Caelainn Hogan writes about the terrible choice facing parents of children with cancer in S'3 : risk traveling for treatment, or risk forgoing it. Ruth Franklin profiles Claire Messud, one of our foremost chroniclers of women's hidden appetites. And Jane Coaston writes about "virtue signaling" — taking a stand mostly to look noble doing it — and our inability to believe other people hold real convictions. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00644344 cluing forThe NeW Y ,rk Time What a Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian- American Identity \c When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an Asian-American fraternity, he was looking for a sense of belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead. gtRahima Chawish, 5, from Deir Ezzor, about to get treatment for kidney cancer at Al- Bayrouni University Hospital cancer center in Damascus. faire Messud Sebastian Liste/N0OR. for The New York Times Irina Rozovsky for The New York Times `The War Is Easier on Me Who's Afraid of Claire Than the Sickness of My Messud? Child' 11, Ki 111 i RANKLIN B. (.ki.LAINN HOGAN The novelist's characters have been called difficult women." She would say they are simply Every day in Syria, parents of children with cancer women with desires. face a wrenching choice: to risk traveling for treatment, or to risk forgoing it. Victory in the Shadows I:: .1.Il Through blur, darkness and drift, the photographer Santu Mofokeng shows that black South Africans are more than their suffering EFTA00644345 How Do I Deal With a Gun at a Relative's Home? lip KWANIE ANT I I ON A P PIA I I The magazine's Ethicist columnist on a family's prejudices against gun ownership and the guilt of making more money teaching English as a native speaker. ADVERTISEMENT Illustration by Derek Brahne) `Virtue Signaling' Isn't the Problem. Not Believing One Another Is. COAST t The more sheltered and fragmented American communities become, the harder we find it to trust that other people hold real convictions. EFTA00644346 RGum chewing isn't stimulant and addictive, like cigarette smoking. Its pleasure is closer to that of a pacifier. ,Ispahan Sables. Sam Kaplan tor The New York Time. Gentl and Flyers for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Amy Wilson. Letter of Recommendation: Gum By KARL ( :,....L SGAARD Gum chewing isn't stimulating and addictive, like cigarette smoking. Its pleasure is closer to that of a pacifier. Elevating the Humble Cookie By DORIE GREENSPAN Pierre Hermes raspberry and rose sables taste wonderfully complex, but making them is easy. TALK Andy Slavitt Wants to Unite America on Health Care Interview by ANA MARIE COX The former head of Medicaid on the most recent efforts to repeal or replace the A.CA and whether President Trump can distinguish between health and life insurance. How to Have Your Health Food and a Love It, Too Make your own tofu, then serve it with a French butter sauce — the best of two very different kinds of cooking. ADVERTISEMENT EFTA00644347 GJ GJ FOLLOW NYTimes Tw @nytmag Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. Subscribe ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYlimes.com's The New York Times Magazine newsletter. Unsubscribe Manage Subscriptions Change Your Email Privacy Policy Contact Advertise Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 rr EFTA00644348