The New Yorker - USA (2019-12-16)

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7 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN 17 THE TALK OF THETOWN Margaret Talbot on gun laws and the 2020 race; Navidad folk rock; Lil Peep’s lineag ...

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4 THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 16, 2019 CONTRIBUTORS Jiayang Fan (“The Act of Protest,” p. 38) became a staff writer in 2016. Joshua ...

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8 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY ALVA SKOG Since 1995, Jingle Ball—the annual mega concert put together by iH ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 9 Like anything beloved enough to be indispensable, “The Nutcracker” can grow overfamiliar. Th ...

10 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY BEYA REBAÏ Singers can’t resist the melodies and seasonal quality of Schuber ...

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12 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 © ZILIA SÁNCHEZ / COURTESY GALERIE LELONG & CO., NEW YORK “Soy Isla” is the title of a b ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 13 ILLUSTRATION BY RUNE FISKER Born in 1901 in Austria-Hungary, the playwright and novelist Öd ...

14 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 1 For more reviews, visit newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town Though early Soviet cinema is b ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 15 PHOTOGRAPH BY VANESSA GRANDA FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTW ...

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THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 17 COMMENT GUNSAND 2020 O n September 12th, a little more than a month after the weekend that ...

18 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER16, 2019 HEREFORTHEH O L I DAYS ELSONERODELAN AV I DA D F ifty years ago, Mike Amadeo, a com- poser a ...