7 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
31 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson Sorkin on complicity with Jeffrey Epstein;
Meat Loaf, the musical; record-setting sneaker collector;
the kid mayor in the Hamptons; dining out with the dogs.
AMERICAN CHRONICLES
Ian Frazier 36 Old Hatreds
The history of a white supremacist’s bunk.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Colin Nissan 43 Pay Off Your Student Debt in Three Easy Lifetimes
DEPT. OF ECOLOGY
Nicola Twilley 44 Trailblazers
Fighting fires by starting them.PROFILES
Susan B. Glasser 50 The Secretary of Trump
How Mike Pompeo reinvented himself.A REPORTER AT LARGE
Andrew Marantz 60 Trouble in Paradise
Silicon Valley tries to right its wrongs.
FICTION
J. Robert Lennon 68 “ The Loop”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Caleb Crain 76 The rise and fall of unions.BOOKS
Louis Menand 81 What happened to cultural anthropology?
83 Briefly Noted
Paul Elie 87 An Italian opus about sex, faith, and violence.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 90 Renoir and the male gaze.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 92 “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” “Good Boys.”POEMS
D. A. Powell 55 “Open Gesture of an I”
Deborah Garrison 72 “Telephone Years”
COVER
Edward Steed “Sea Changes”AUGUST 26, 2019
DRAWINGS Farley Katz, Will McPhail, Liana Finck, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, P. C. Vey, Tim Hamilton,
Frank Cotham, Roz Chast, Lila Ash, Amy Kurzweil S POTS Dermot Flynn