The New Yorker - 02.09.2019

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Evan Osnos on the turmoil in Hong Kong; seeking the spirit of 2020; return to the ...

2 THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 CONTRIBUTORS Amanda Petrusich (“Just a Modern Guy,” p. 30) is a staff writer. Her most recen ...

THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 3 be able to control very soon. Recent research in this area—including gene drives, the releas ...

It’s been only five years since Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” was seen on Broadway, but there’s a reason actors are drawn to it: th ...

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6 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 felt as though I were writhing on a pin: again and again the carnal tapioca, the vacant ga ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 7 ILLUSTRATION BY WELD WILLIAMS Lil Nas X is having the best year ever. His viral hit “Old Tow ...

8 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 Into the Woods Boscobel House & Gardens OUT OF TOWN For its first foray into full-out ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 9 ILLUSTRATION BY LEHEL KOVÁCS There’s one more chance this summer to spend an evening at the ...

10 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 COURTESY CELESTIAL PICTURES The Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers movie studio, best known for ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID WILLIAMS FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTW ...

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THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 13 COMMENT HONGKONGONTHEMARCH J ust before Hong Kong returned to Chinese control in 1997, a te ...

14 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THECAMPAIGN TRAIL ESPRITDEORBCORPS A couple of Thursdays ago, at a rally in New Hampshire, ...

vited to speak, though. “San Francisco is a one-party town,” he said. (Manny’s has hosted seventeen of the Democratic Presidenti ...

16 THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 ting soil made from Grandma into the asparagus patch? Lisa Devereau, the president of the ...

THENEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 17 Me,” “I Love You Always Forever”) and anti-love songs (“Love Hurts,” “Love Is a Battlefield ...