A few weeks after leaving Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on the Ceres, a homemade sailing barge, Erik Andrus and his small crew reached New York City, stopping at farmers’ markets along the way. At each market, they unloaded produce and canned goods from North Country farmers. Beyond the novelty of delivering goods by sea, Andrus is intent on demonstrating that connecting market-goers to local food needn’t be done over land—or by expending fossil fuels. Even though, as Mark Singer reports in this week’s magazine, “during most of the voyage southern headwinds …had forced the crew to depend upon their backup energy source—a twenty-horsepower outboard motor,” the Ceres used wind power for their victory lap around New York harbor. Despite the first-time hiccups, Andrus is planning on making regular runs to New York.
Nate Lavey is a video producer in New York.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Pop Music
The Tortured Poetry of Taylor Swift’s New Album
“The Tortured Poets Department” has moments of tenderness. But it suffers from being too long and too familiar.
By Amanda Petrusich
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?
The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.
By Susan B. Glasser
Infinite Scroll
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
By Kyle Chayka
Dept. of Medicine
How to Die in Good Health
The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.
By Dhruv Khullar