From: NYTimes.com <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: The New York Times Magazine: The Death of Michael Deng Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:04:12 +0000 View in Browser Add [email protected] 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