From: To: [email protected] Subject: The New York Times Magazine: The Last Line of Defense Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:38:04 +0000 View in Browser Add RThe New York Times ;,,'The New York Times Friday. July 28. 2017 NYTimestom » "Flee at once," read one desperate message. Liang Xiaojun was trying to pretend it was a normal day, even as his cellphone rumbled to life with bleak new warnings. As a human rights lawyer in China, he had come to accept that periodic spams of repression were an unavoidable risk of his profession. But this day was an unprecedented one: By late afternoon, nearly 6o of his colleagues had vanished. For this week's cover story, Alex W. Palmer reports on the hundreds of Chinese lawyers targeted in one massive crackdown — and the question that hangs over some of their colleagues. Will they give in and protect themselves, or risk everything to keep fighting for the rule of law? Elsewhere in the magazine, Luca Locatelli photographs the quarries that provide one of our classic symbols of opulence: Italian marble. Alex French writes about Hollywood's attempts to make movies out of properties that don't have narratives or even characters, like the mobile game Fruit Ninja. And Wesley Morris writes about the word "unapologetic" — a term of patriotism for some and resistance for others. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00697423