4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
15 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Steve Coll on bombshells at the impeachment hearings;
Mike Nichols remembered; Charles Ray’s city walks;
married to the Mets; the Karl Lagerfeld economy.
PERSONAL HISTORY
David Sedaris 20 Hurricane Season
Of repairs and family.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Susanna Wolff 25 The Perfect Engagement Photo Session
BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT.
Brian Barth 26 The Defector
Silicon Valley’s ethics denounced by one of its own.PROFILES
Amanda Petrusich 34 Ecstasy and Ruin
Beck is back.ANNALS OF JUSTICE
Jennifer Gonnerman 42 The Interview
Negotiating the arbitrary world of parole hearings.
FICTION
Roddy Doyle 54 “The Curfew”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
James Wood 59 The long shadow of Margaret Thatcher.
Hilton Als 66 How Joan Didion rewrote American womanhood.
69 Briefly Noted
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 70 The art of the Iraq wars, at PS1.
MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 72 ECM’s fiftieth anniversary and its star string quartet.THE THEATRE
Alexandra Schwartz 74 “The Inheritance.”THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 76 “Knives Out,” “Kind Hearts and Coronets.”POEMS
Sophie Cabot Black 38 “To Burn Through Where You Are Not Yet”
Fabián Severo 56 “Sixty”
COVER
Kadir Nelson “Art Connoisseurs”DRAWINGS Gahan Wilson, Sofia Warren, Trevor Spaulding, David Sipress,
Roz Chast, Amy Hwang, Drew Dernavich, Emily Flake, William Haefeli, Liana Finck,
Brian Hawes & Seth Roberts, Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby S POTS Ivan Brunetti