The New Yorker - 16.09.2019

58 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 the Aunts, and three of them in partic- ular: one whom we already know from the first boo ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 59 obscured by fog. (The publisher has em- phasized that “The Testaments” is “not connected” t ...

60 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 emptied of its foot?” she’d once told her- self. She is a vortex of ambiguity, prag- mati ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 61 The author’s stories can’t compete, in sheer horror, with the drama of his own life. BOOKS ...

62 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 hospitable environment of New Or­ leans. He continued writing, in more respectable veins ...

“Make sure you show my work.” to overcome it. A mother dies during a cholera epidemic, yet her love for her infant son is so pow ...

loving husband toward Setsu (and a dot- ing father to their four children), Hearn’s personal relationships were, for the most pa ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 65 BRIEFLY NOTED Five Days Gone, by Laura Cumming (Scribner). In the fall of 1929, the author’ ...

66 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 MUSICAL EVENTS SAFE SPACE Kirill Petrenko makes a conservative début at the Berlin Philha ...

THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 67 adoxically or not, his supremely con- fident control. His performances have struck me a ...

68 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 The director Jamie Lloyd strips bare Pinter’s love-triangle-told-backward. THE THEATRE HE ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 69 Emma: she’s just another diamond in the rough, a recruitable talent. Lloyd has directed Pin ...

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