The New Yorker - 04.11.2019

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THE NEW YORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 1 4 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN 13 THE TALK OF THETOWN Jelani Cobb on the impeachment backlash; a weddi ...

2 THE NEW YORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 CONTRIBUTORS Raffi Khatchadourian (“The Burn List,” p. 42) has been a New Yorker staff writer ...

THE MAIL THE NEW YORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 3 In the nineteen-sixties, I read “Gil- gamesh” as a literature student at Wil- liam ...

In 1994, Rachel Feinstein (pictured) cast herself as Sleeping Beauty, spending her nights (and days) inside a storybook house sh ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 5 ILLUSTRATION BY JASU HU The violinist Midori earned her stardom principally as a stellar int ...

6 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY OHNI LISLE Like a lot of kids who came of age in the eighties, I watched th ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 7 ILLUSTRATION BY JULIEN POSTURE What happens when a great modern-dance master dies? The compa ...

8 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY AUDE VAN RYN In 1936, at the age of twenty-three, the Swiss artist Meret Op ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 9 ILLUSTRATION BY JAMIEL LAW Rap music often finds its major hubs in bustling cities where bus ...

10 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 COURTESY KINO LORBER In the hands of the right filmmakers, long-form television can have a ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCES F. DENNY FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFOR ...

Inside City of Hope’s for Type 1 Diabetes SEARCH FOR A CURE Diabetes investigators at City of Hope, a top-rated cancer center, a ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 13 COMMENT DISORDERIN THEHOUSE B y traditional civil-disobedience standards, the apparel of th ...

14 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 OLDWESTDEPT. WA I T I N GFORKANYE W edding horror stories are a dime a dozen. But can anyth ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 15 pline blot out the other. Her first major project, “Yeast Expression,” was a col- laboratio ...

16 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 would trigger a chain reaction. Not only has the diamond disappeared into the blackest blac ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 17 1 HAUNTEDHOUSEDEPT. DEMENTED T he artists Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue were in Philad ...