8 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
21 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on the impeachment hearings;
a Times Square summit; upping the score;
land of hope and grime; Peter Sarsgaard is listening.PERSONAL HISTORY
Adam Shatz 28 The Tyke with a Toque
How haute cuisine changed a childhood.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Sarah Paley 35 Government ContractAMERICAN CHRONICLES
Rachel Monroe 36 On the Nose
Exploring the cult of natural wine.
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY
Burkhard Bilger 42 Open Wide
What should we be feeding our babies?
LETTER FROM BROOKLYN
Alexandra Schwartz 52 Bounty Hunters
Tales from the Park Slope Food Co-op.SKETCHBOOK
Kendra Allenby 57 “How to Correctly Estimate Cooking Time”FICTION
John Edgar Wideman 62 “Arizona”THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Philip Deloria 70 Thanksgiving in myth and reality.
73 Briefly Noted
BOOKS
Casey Cep 75 William Monroe Trotter’s uncompromising life.
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 80 The rap of Wiki.
ON TELEVISION
Emily Nussbaum 82 Apple TV+ makes its début.THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 84 “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “The Report.”POEMS
Adrienne Su 46 “An Hour Later, You’re Hungry Again”
Edward Hirsch 66 “A Baker Swept By”
COVER
Wayne Thiebaud “Stuffed”DRAWINGS Maddie Dai, Madeline Horwath, Robert Leighton, Julia Bernhard, Andrew Hamm,
Amy Kurzweil, J. C. Duffy, Frank Cotham, Michael Maslin, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Liana Finck, Amy Hwang,
Lonnie Millsap, Roz Chast, Mick Stevens, T. S. McCoy, Ellie Black, Gahan WilsonS POTS Tamara Shopsin