The New Yorker - 28.10.2019

THE NEW YORKER, OCTOBER 28, 2019 1

5 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN

15 THE TALK OF THETOWN

Robin Wright on Syria and its aftermath;

the avocado whisperer; traces of Robert Moses;

etiquette on the Great White Way; Dear Yaddo.

MODERN LIFE

Christine Smallwood 20 Starstruck

Why we’re crazy for astrology.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Cora Frazier 25 Your Immortality Application

AMERICAN CHRONICLES

Jill Lepore 26 You’re Fired

The origins of impeachment.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Luke Mogelson 32 The Afghan Way of Death

A war-torn country longs for peace.

PROFILES

Michael Schulman 54 Original Man

Adam Driver on the stage and screen.

FICTION

Tessa Hadley 64 “The Bunty Club”

THE CRITICS

BOOKS

Casey Cep 72 The life of Thomas Edison.

77 Briefly Noted

Adam Gopnik 78 The paradoxes of urban renewal.

Jerome Groopman 83 Is it possible to change bad habits?

THE THEATRE

Alexandra Schwartz 86 “The Rose Tattoo,” “Soft Power.”

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 88 “The Lighthouse,” “Jojo Rabbit.”

POEMS

James Richardson 58 “On the Fly”

Brenda Shaughnessy 69 “The Poets Are Dying”

COVER

Liniers “Leaf Peepers”

DRAWINGS Barbara Smaller, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Paul Karasik,
David Sipress, Joe Dator, Lars Kenseth, Maggie Larson, Elisabeth McNair,
Liana Finck, Tom Toro, Edward Steed, Roz Chast, Michael Maslin, Frank Cotham,
Colin Tom, Julia Bernhard S POTS Marie Assénat

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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