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 earth;
mastering the mega mashup; a subway sketchpad.ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Calvin Tomkins 18 Surface Matters
The obsessively patient work of Vija Celmins.SHOUTS & MURMURS
John Kenney 25 Love Poems for People with ChildrenDEPT. OF FINANCE
Liaquat Ahamed 26 Widening Gyre
Capitalism’s cycle of inequality.PROFILES
Amanda Petrusich 30 Just a Modern Guy
Punk’s godfather, Iggy Pop.
SKETCHBOOK
Liana Finck 35 “Some Relationship Models”
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Nick Paumgarten 38 The Message of Measles
Treating an outbreak of vaccine refusal.FICTION
Kate Walbert 48 “To Do”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Adam Gopnik 53 The significance of spycraft.BOOKS
59 Briefly Noted
Dan Chiasson 60 The power of the printed page.
Madeleine Schwartz 63 Nell Zink’s “Doxology.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 66 “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” “Give Me Liberty.”
POEMS
Jessica Lee 42 “Lust Must Have Struck for the First Time”
Tony Hoagland 51 “Among the Intellectuals”COVER
Kadir Nelson “Heat Wave”SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
DRAWINGS David Sipress, Ellis Rosen, Kaamran Hafeez, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Harry Bliss,
Roz Chast, Amy Hwang, John Klossner, Suerynn Lee S POTS Allan Sanders