The New Yorker - 16.09.2019

material is so delicate,” Pitt explained. It was approaching 9 P.M. when a takeout order of dumplings from Din Tai Fung arrived ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 39 his terrace, and Gray would sometimes sit outside and listen to someone prac- ticing the ha ...

James’s crime-genre work,” he says. “‘ Tw o Lovers’ is small and carefully drawn, and I was amazed at how emotional it was.” Shi ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 41 it is utopian,” he said as we made a right onto a wide boulevard. “You have to try and imag ...

42 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 The author’s childhood diary, which she kept while she was imprisoned at Terezín with her ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 43 PERSONAL HISTORY MY TEREZÍN DIARY And what I did not write about. BY ZUZANA JUSTMAN PHOTOGR ...

44 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 The author with her parents, Marie Picková and Viktor Pick, leaving a skating rink in Pra ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 45 portion “just to even it out a little,” I’d say, and so it never lasted the three and a hal ...

46 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 my favorite shade of blue. Susi’s hus- band, Giuseppe Renzetti, later became the pro-Nazi ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 47 Herbert Langer, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. COURTESY THE AUTHOR job in the Putzk ...

48 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 The author with her brother, Bobby, in April, 1937. COURTESY THE AUTHOR our Terezín “hous ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 49 Herbert’s list. However, during Sep­ tember and October of 1944, when eighteen thousand Ter ...

50 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY BERKE YAZICIOGLU FICTION HARBOR Garth Greenwell ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 51 E ven in the dark I liked to look at it, though the sea was never truly dark, even now in t ...

52 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 walking with another American, a grad- uate student in a program he hated in the South. H ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 53 accent that made him distant with me, I thought, though maybe it was un- charitable of me t ...

is the most important thing, Liberty. Hear hear! someone said, an Ameri- can, and we all raised our cups to N., though most of t ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 55 From where I stood now I could see the path we had taken, my friend and I, and I remembered ...

56 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 THE CRITICS BOOKS ALL AUNT LYDIA’S CHILDREN Margaret Atwood writes a sequel to “The Handm ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 57 Atwood has said that the new book was inspired by questions she got from readers, and by “t ...