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

7 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN

17 THE TALK OF THETOWN

Margaret Talbot on gun laws and the 2020 race;

Navidad folk rock; Lil Peep’s lineage and legacy;

dressed up and de-aged; resort vacations of yore.

LETTER FROM MOSCOW

Joshua Yaffa 22 Channelling Putin

The man who puts the Kremlin on TV.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Claire Friedman 29 The Electable Female Candidate

ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS

Kelefa Sanneh 30 Outside Shot

Through the Safdie brothers’ lens.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Jiayang Fan 38 The Act of Protest

Hong Kong’s awakening.

PROFILES

Joshua Rothman 50 Mirror World

William Gibson finds science fiction in reality.

FICTION

Emilio Fraia 60 “Sevastopol”

THE CRITICS

POP MUSIC

Amanda Petrusich 68 Moondog, a relic of Old New York.

BOOKS

Thomas Mallon 72 The Hardwick-Lowell letters.

75 Briefly Noted

THE THEATRE

Vinson Cunningham 78 “Jagged Little Pill,” “Fefu and Her Friends.”

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 80 “Seberg,” “In Fabric.”

POEMS

Louise Erdrich 43 “Passion”

David Biespiel 64 “Republic of Magpies”

COVER

Peter de Sève “Priority Shipping”

DRAWINGS David Sipress, Jeremy Nguyen, Mike Twohy,

Joe Dator, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Maddie Dai, Liana Finck, Peter Kuper,

Harry Bliss, Roz Chast, Carolita Johnson, Mary Lawton, Victoria Roberts,

Frank Cotham, Edward Steed, Joseph Dottino, Lila Ash S POTS Luci Gutiérrez

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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