2019-08-19_The_New_Yorker

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DRAWINGS Paul Noth, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Danny Shanahan, Frank Cotham, Roz Chast, Liana Finck,
Maggie Larson, Amy Hwang, Emily Flake, Lonnie Millsap, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby S POTS Tom Bachtell


AUGUST 19, 2019


4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN


13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN


David Remnick on Trump’s white-identity politics;
don’t meme, vote; the frequencies of antiquity;
the origin of “The Real World ”; the sage of standards.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES
Kelefa Sanneh 18 The Color of Injustice
A shift in understanding what racism is.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Jack Handey 23 Recent Articles of Mine

PERSONAL HISTORY
Cyrus Grace Dunham 24 A Year Without a Name
When do you become sure of who you are?
THE POLITICAL SCENE
Jelani Cobb 28 The Vote Next Time
Stacey Abrams and the fight for electoral reform.

A REPORTER AT LARGE
Larissa MacFarquhar 36 A House of Their Own
A women’s shelter and a feminist movement’s changes.

SKETCHBOOK
Barry Blitt 41 “The Worst of the 1919 White Sox”

FICTION
George Saunders 50 “Elliott Spencer”

THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Francisco Cantú 59 Téa Obreht’s novel of the West.
61 Briefly Noted
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 64 The bedroom songcraft of Clairo.
MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 66 A film composer considered in a new key.
THE THEATRE
Vinson Cunningham 68 “Sea Wall/A Life,” “Coriolanus.”
ON TELEVISION
Emily Nussbaum 70 “Sherman’s Showcase,” “South Side.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 72 “After the Wedding,” “Cold Case Hammarskjöld.”

POEMS
Megan Fernandes 21 “Scylla and Charybdis”
Ciaran Carson 44 “Claude Monet, ‘The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil,’ 1880”
COVER
Kara Walker “Toni Morrison”
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