The New Yorker - 16.09.2019

18 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 excused himself to use the bathroom. On his return, he said, “I form my own way of medita ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 19 1 POSTSCRIPT JAMESATLAS L iterary biographers—writers who devote their lives to other write ...

20 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 An activist turned adviser, Power saw how good intentions could go wrong. ANNALS OF DIPLO ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 21 The book inspired a generation of activists, helping to establish the doc- trine of “respon ...

have remained in power, and many peo­ ple would have died—but perhaps fewer than died in the intervention. Another question is w ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 23 net for the wretched of sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Today, there are as many as a mil ...

24 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 mused that the crisis could be solved if Assad surrendered his chemical weap- ons. The Ru ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 25 SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ I woke up on Tuesday as a bug, and my boyfriend did not ...

26 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 In modern fandom, an attack against a celebrity is an attack against the fans. DEPT. OF P ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 27 titious fan named Stan (short for “stalker fan”), who becomes so furious that Em- inem hasn ...

28 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 Beto O’Rourke or cheer on clapbacks from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (A re- cent Twitter pr ...

my own canon: she and Jon Snow are happy, everything worked out, she has two dragons—somehow the third one came back and he’s no ...

30 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 Statler Hilton hotel, in New York, under a banner that read “Star Trek Lives!” Rock and r ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 31 or Kathy Bates in “Misery,” based on the 1987 Stephen King thriller, about a romance-novel ...

32 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 PROFILES WHAT REMAINS How the filmmaker James Gray went from the outer boroughs to outer ...

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dinners for friends since college, when he studied film at the University of Southern California: a period when his mother was d ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 35 to watch films, and many actors and craftspeople who have worked on a Gray film have been t ...

36 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 and everyone seems to be playing along.” Coppola gives a different accounting: “Maybe it’ ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 37 Jewish family, in what he calls the Ar- chie Bunker part of Queens. His mother taught at Qu ...