From the daily newsletter: a report from the scene in Kerr County. Plus: a hundred years of book recommendations.

All baby toys and cat toys are interchangeable. Both baby and cat are obsessed with me and won’t shut the fuck up about it.

There will be time to sort out whether the tragedy could have been averted, but the devastation is still unfolding, and it is ...

In “The Enchanted April,” by Elizabeth von Arnim, four Englishwomen are transformed by a temporary loss of self.