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THE NEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 1

4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN

13 THETALKOFTHETOWN

Jelani Cobb on the impeachment backlash;

a wedding chez Kanye; making a black diamond;

the end of “Silicon Valley”; Killjoy’s Kastle.

LETTER FROM THE U.K.

Sam Knight 18 The Long Goodbye

How Brexit will end.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Bob Odenkirk 25 A Biblical Rough Draft

PROFILES

Carina Chocano 26 Sweet Smell of Success

An unlikely fortune and a corporate creed.

ANNALS OF DIPLOMACY
Joshua Yaffa 32 The Swamp
Trump’s overtures to Volodymyr Zelensky.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Raffi Khatchadourian 42 The Burn List
A cybersecurity firm’s spectacular rise and fall.
FICTION
Tiphanie Yanique 58 “God’s Caravan”
THECRITICS
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 66 “The Irishman.”

BOOKS

Margaret Talbot 69 Hollywood ’s pioneering women.

73 Briefly Noted

A CRITIC AT LARGE

Arthur Krystal 74 The literature of old age.

THE THEATRE

Vinson Cunningham 78 Ntozake Shange’s masterpiece revived.

POEMS

T. R. Hummer 49 “Louisiana”

Elisa Gonzalez 62 “Failed Essay on Privilege”

COVER

Richard McGuire “Noise New York”

DRAWINGS Bruce Eric Kaplan, Kendra Allenby, William Haefeli,
Luke Kruger-Howard, Sofia Warren and Jason Adam Katzenstein, Suerynn Lee,
Amy Hwang, Carolita Johnson, Will McPhail, Karl Stevens,
Jeremy Nguyen, Benjamin Schwartz, Victoria Roberts, Paul Noth, Liana Finck,
P. C. Vey, Ellie Black, Michael Maslin, Frank Cotham, Roz Chast,
Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby S POTS M. H. Jeeves

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

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